Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Let's talk about TLCs Part 3 - Phosphomolybdic Acid (PMA) Stain

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PMA Stain is a highly versatile general stain for developing TLC plates. The stain is easily prepared by dissolving 10 wt. % phosphomolybd...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

100% Edible

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Finally, I'm returning to normal. I'm back at the University working at full force and I've got the energy to do a bit of blogg...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Open Access Journals - Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

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It's amazing how unpredictable life is. Only four months after I started my job in biotech I'm heading back to academia. Not that ...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Catalytic Hydrogenation - now fire free

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In my experience you should not do synthetic organic chemistry if: - (A) You are drunk (or the following day when you have a hang over) and/...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Recycling Silica Gel

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Insert usual excuse for infrequent posting here: ..... - I recently received the following email regarding recycling of silica gel: - "...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008

How to clean your sintered funnel

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Lately when I have been cleaning my sintered funnels people have stopped and asked me what I was doing. To my surprise many chemists don...
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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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