This is a follow-up to the quest posted before regarding the most straightforward, but not necessarily the most elegant, synthesis of 3,4-difluorothiophene. Bear in mind, our goal was to get a decent amount of the material as swiftly as possible; a completely new reaction type for Org. Lett. would have been nice, but […]

The actual value of a PhD has been lively debated.[1][2][3][4][5] To the best of my knowledge however, no one thus far has been able to pinpoint the exact number.

I am therefore delighted to be able to do so here, and hence put a final […]

I chuckled a bit when I saw this graphical abstract. I like bromobenzene; I have written about it before.

Disclaimer: I haven’t even read the paper, this just caught my eye while aimlessly browsing ACS Mobile, one of my favorite apps.

Anyway, I figured I’d turn […]