Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Green Peptide Synthesis

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Since my transition from academia to industry I have completely shifted my focus from medicinal chemistry and chemical biology to chemical p...
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Friday, December 20, 2019

Bitopic Ligands and Epoxides

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For most academics, research can be a somewhat slow process. From the conception of an idea to actually getting started can take a signifi...

Blog Comments Back On Line

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I was wondering why no one ever seems to comment on the blog posts anymore and just discovered that I no longer get notified when someone...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The Antistatic Portal

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For a change I had to leave the office, put on a lab coat and go to the lab to weigh out some compound. I had a nice fluffy freeze drie...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The Disconnection Approach - Automated!

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In my time as a synthetic organic chemist the most important advance in the field was definitely the introduction of searchable databases ...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

Transfer of nasty stuff with a syringe and needle

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Synthetic organic chemists often have to transfer something pyrophoric, toxic, volatile, smelly etc. from a commercially acquired sealed b...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Quitting Academia

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In my previous post I promised sharing my reasons for quitting academia. I just celebrated my 1 year anniversary in big pharma and boy did...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

Industrial Postdoc in Chemical Development of Green Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis

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It's been awfully quiet here in recent years. However, you readers are still very active on the  blog and it clearly continues to be a...
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Friday, April 28, 2017

Catalytic Hydrogenation - A Farewell to Alcohol(s)

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We have a project in my group on bitopic ligands targeting the adrenergic receptors. We recently published a perspective paper on the topi...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Reproducibility!

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I guess it is old news but it only caught my eye today at the BBC website . Apparently Nature did a survey last summer (2016) were scient...
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