Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The Return of Dylan Stiles

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Just as we thought that Dylan Stiles, formerly the host of blog.tenderbuton.com, was a dead and buried blogger he returns. Check his post on...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Asymmetric synthesis of vinylcyclopropanes

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Apologies for the sluggish posting. Life is more complicated than usual as I've moved from one research group to another and as many of ...
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Friday, June 01, 2007

You're fired

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Dear Steve and Chris: You're fired, both of you. Your license is revoked. All privileges have been suspended. Pack up your stuff and le...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The Mannich Reaction revisited

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The Mannich Reaction ( Carl Ulrich Franz Mannich , 1877-1947) is yet another one of those reactions that look brilliant on paper. However, I...
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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Chemistry Blogs

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I've received some emails from people wanting me to link to their blogs and web sites and also had some people ask me why I don't pr...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Revenge of the NMR tube

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Well I guess it had to happen to someone sooner or later. It appears that I applied slightly too much pressure when I was sticking the lid o...
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Friday, May 04, 2007

Tethered aminohydroxylations Donohoe stylie

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Back in 2002 I started on a project where we considered using the Sharpless asymmetric aminohydroxylation (AA) as a key step. However, the a...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Monkeys

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Yes, yes, yes I know Curly Arrow hasn't exactly been a hive of activity lately. Trust me it isn't because I spend my evenings sippin...
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Friday, April 20, 2007

Tempo Oxidations Part II

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I've previously mentioned the TEMPO/BAIB combo for oxidising alcohols to carboxylic acid. A very smooth and mild oxidation. Back when we...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Fun with singlet oxygen

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So finally I'm back fresh and invigorated after numerous bottles of awesome South Australian Wine. I'd like to recommend Primo Esta...
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