Electrochemistry
- Open Flask Blog Turns 1
On a fateful day last February, Y. Brando, Dane, Will, and Hans were busy sitting around rumor-mongering upon the latest internet gossip (likely started by Hans in the first place). Dane was dwelling over his lack of Reddit karma when they were all interrupted...
- Structural Reassignment By Cool Science
Today, Vinogradova, Muller, and Buchwald have an excellent piece of investigative science in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. that I think is great, just great. And honestly, I'm a bit jaded and easily unimpressed (especially when the work isn't directly...
- Experiments With Googling
[Disclaimer - I couldn't think of any good images for this blog post, so to liven it up a bit here are a few things you can use: 1) An ASCII game you can play in your browser that is quite fun - pro tip - let it run in the background while you're...
- Dave Collum Is The Voice Of A Generation
"You never want to solve a problem. Just keep making excellent progress." - Dave Collum Read more »...
- The Beauty Of A Continuously Updated Electronic Book
I guess this blog post could be called "The Portable Chemist's Consultant Part 2" (see part 1 here). The reason for the existence of this blog post is three-fold: 1) to write about the advantages of an electronic book that is continuously...
Electrochemistry
Who wants to be a heterocyclic millionaire?
In case you didn't know, Phil has been teaching a Heterocyclic Chemistry class here at Scripps since 2005. This course consists of approximately two dozen 1.5-hour lectures. Other than the students, there are many Scripps postdocs and industrial chemists auditing this class (25-30 people from local companies are sitting in each time). Phil discusses traditional topics such as pyridines, pyrroles, furans and indoles as well as more specialized topics such as benzodiazepines and alkaloid biosynthesis. The industrial chemists are also encouraged to bring in their personal chemistry problems and write it up on the chalkboard before class for "free consulting" from Phil (avoiding IP-sensitive functional groups and side chains, of course!). This course wraps up with a fun class quiz under the title of "Heterocyclic Millionaire" where Phil brings out his best Regis impersonations.
(Read on to see the midterm yourself!)
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- Open Flask Blog Turns 1
On a fateful day last February, Y. Brando, Dane, Will, and Hans were busy sitting around rumor-mongering upon the latest internet gossip (likely started by Hans in the first place). Dane was dwelling over his lack of Reddit karma when they were all interrupted...
- Structural Reassignment By Cool Science
Today, Vinogradova, Muller, and Buchwald have an excellent piece of investigative science in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. that I think is great, just great. And honestly, I'm a bit jaded and easily unimpressed (especially when the work isn't directly...
- Experiments With Googling
[Disclaimer - I couldn't think of any good images for this blog post, so to liven it up a bit here are a few things you can use: 1) An ASCII game you can play in your browser that is quite fun - pro tip - let it run in the background while you're...
- Dave Collum Is The Voice Of A Generation
"You never want to solve a problem. Just keep making excellent progress." - Dave Collum Read more »...
- The Beauty Of A Continuously Updated Electronic Book
I guess this blog post could be called "The Portable Chemist's Consultant Part 2" (see part 1 here). The reason for the existence of this blog post is three-fold: 1) to write about the advantages of an electronic book that is continuously...