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Synthesis of nanodiamonds

By drfreddy On September 11th, 2014 · 6 Comments

You know what I like best about chemistry? That you learn something new every single day, no matter how long you’ve been doing it. In between meetings yesterday, I decided to kill off a couple of minutes by clicking around on Wikipedia, and stumbled on something that was totally new to me: The synthesis of […]

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Need a killer dye

By drfreddy On August 27th, 2014 · 11 Comments

I’m looking for an organic* material – a killer dye – with the following properties.

Must have Nice price. In other words, not something fancy from the latest issue of JACS. Commercial availability and in stock. Not in “8-12 weeks.” Chemical INSTABILITY towards light. Preferably at a defined wavelength. Say 254 nm; not […]

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Beware of the pay to publish scam

By drfreddy On July 30th, 2014 · 8 Comments

As if the cost for journal subscriptions for universities and companies wasn’t bad enough today, there is a growing number of really stinky players in the field. This in my inbox today:

From: “spg.submission”
Date: May 11, 2014 08:27:19 CEST
To: [email protected]
Subject: Dear (my real name)

Dear (my real name)

[…]

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Would you drive this train?

By drfreddy On June 23rd, 2014 · 11 Comments

These freight cars were recently spotted somewhere in North America. Note especially the “hot” in ammonium nitrate!

I can’t see the need for a trail derailment emergency plan. If it crashes it CRASHES.

To answer my own question: Not in this life. You?

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The difference between inorganic and organic chemistry

By drfreddy On June 16th, 2014 · 7 Comments

Had a couple of minutes to kill. Did a web search for “what is the difference between inorganic and organic chemistry.” Skipped directly to search results page 3 and beyond to find the most horrible and entertaining examples. Such as this.

I think Organiic chemistry is chemistry most ly about living things and carbon and […]

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Thank you for everything

By drfreddy On June 3rd, 2014 · 7 Comments

Rest in peace, Alexander Shulgin.

I owe you everything.

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Black powder (video)

By drfreddy On May 12th, 2014 · 3 Comments

So, I made a batch of black powder in a commercial context. It was eventually used in a Swedish national television show, featuring yours truly as the guest host talking about alchemy and related matters. Details to be disclosed at a later stage.

Anyway, there were some leftovers, and my 7-year-old son and his cousin […]

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In a 200 L reactor…

By drfreddy On April 30th, 2014 · 8 Comments

Remember I showed you a successful crystallization of a chiral material a while ago? Probably not. It was almost three years ago. Damn. This is the old post I am talking about.

Just wanted to tell you that I am today at liberty to show you the exact structures! Our scale-up story […]

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Five things synthetic chemists hate

By drfreddy On March 18th, 2014 · 38 Comments

Alright, so you spent most of the day nailing down a certain reaction, and just in time you found a promising lead in the literature. The only thing left now to be able to run your desired reaction is going through the details. It is then you don’t want any of these.

1. Questionable purity […]

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One step according to SciFinder (updated)

By drfreddy On February 27th, 2014 · 9 Comments

I love it when you limit your SciFinder search to one discrete synthetic step and find reactions such as this. Yeah, I’m being a bit sarcastic.

Update

OK, in a matter of hours I managed to get their attention on Twitter. As an organic chemist, I find this discussion (below) quite bizarre. How can […]

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