Friday, April 24, 2009

A Cyclopropane Amino Acid Bites the Dust

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" Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam " --- In recent years I have been getting somewhat annoyed with this fear of chi...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

How to make dry HCl gas

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Dry HCl gas is essential for certain reaction types and can come in handy for making various saturated HCl solutions. The easy solution to ...
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Evil Molecules Part 1 - Explosive Azides, Diazidomethane

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Say hello to diazidomethane.  Is it time for a change of underwear yet? I work with azides on a daily basis and I even determine the melting...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Skraup Reaction - How to Make a Quinoline

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Recently, Derek Lowe was discussing reactions he hadn't done at his blog In the Pipeline . Among these were, in his own words " th...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Whatman Phase Separators

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I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year. Time for the first post of 2009. - A former colle...
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Friday, December 26, 2008

Career plans

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Not surprisingly, most of Curly Arrows readers are early career chemists, predominantly PhD students and Post Docs. So although subjects suc...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

NMR Tube Cleaner Part 2

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Some time ago I had a post about the amazing NMR tube cleaner. I love this piece of equipment and use it regularly. However, as some reader...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

What is a liquid?

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I recently had dinner with some chemists a nd after a bit of red wine the question "What is a liquid?" popped up. The reason the ...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

What is Click Chemistry?

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2001 was a big year for K.B. Sharpless. He received the coveted Nobel Prize in Chemistry and introduced the concept Click Chemistry. I had t...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Curly Arrow - Established 18th October 2006

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Curly Arrow has now been in business for two years. Things have been a bit random the last year primarily due to shifting between jobs and c...
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