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Second hit

By drfreddy On September 21st, 2012 · 1 Comment

Dear responsible web strategist dude at Thieme Online. I think you need to oversee your SEO strategy. I find it difficult to believe that you intended your second hit on Google to appear like this when I type the word ‘synlett’.

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Nothing happened today

By drfreddy On September 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment

If you have nothing good to say – you can always quote and link to others! The reason updates over here have been a bit sparse lately is not because I am slowing down (like Phil), but because I am terribly, terribly busy with my real jobs. Here we go:

I […]

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I vote to ban nomenclature—once and for all

By drfreddy On September 11th, 2012 · 2 Comments

I’ve been working late nights for some time now on transferring a relatively large catalog of chemicals (>1200) from an Excel database into a webpage for a client. I have relied heavily on ChemDraw for Excel. Nomenclature is, as always, a bitch. When working with these quantities, you cannot manually go […]

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My favorite reaction Redux

By drfreddy On September 6th, 2012 · 6 Comments

Say you need to silylate something, like an alcohol or a ketone. Boy, have I got the recipe!

Dissolve 1.25 eq dry sodium iodide in dry acetonitrile. Dissolve your starting material in hexanes (pentane or heptane, all good). Don’t worry if everything doesn’t dissolve properly; solubility will increase during the course of the reaction. […]

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