Sunday, December 23, 2007

Christmas decorations for chemists

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As I was decorating the Christmas tree today I found some of my chemistry contributions to the festive season. First up is my carbohydrate p...
Friday, December 21, 2007

+PLoS+

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Some time ago when I was ranting about papers, authors and so on I promised a post on open access journals, more specifically PLoS: Public L...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Colourful Chemistry

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I'm doing lots of new chemistry in my new job which is great. Since I started my career as an organic chemist more or less everything ha...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Compound Characterisation in Industry

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As I have mentioned previously I'm back working in industry/biotech. One of my colleagues asked me an interesting question today: - Wha...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Low Vacuum Manifold

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I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this. The glass blower who made the manifold has missed the point. Five excellent high vacuum taps...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Sleeping with the stirring bars

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Speaking of grease it appears that the spider mob has been busy again and sent one of their own to a greasy death. I'm sure that I'l...
Monday, November 12, 2007

Grease

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Some time ago I received an email from a reader regarding some problems keeping a constant vacuum during a distillation: - "... What t...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Curly Arrow update

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Apologies for the infrequent posting. I'm very happy to see that people keep coming to the blog despite this. So what's my excuse th...
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Monday, October 08, 2007

Authors - alphabetical vs. by contribution

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After my first post on Authors and who goes on papers I have received quite a few emails from people and had some interesting discussions wi...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

NMR tube cleaner

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I have a lot of NMR tubes and as a result I don't clean them very often and when I eventually decide to do something about it I'm fa...
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