Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Japan vs. Germany: 1-0

Just a minute ago I was looking through the early view papers for Angewandte Chemie and I spotted these two papers virtually back to back. Japan wins by three days. Can you spot the difference? D!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

looks like hayashi made a better optimisation. dioxane seems to be superior and seems to allow lower catalyst loadings.

how much of a coincidence is it that two groups send in rather similar works in two weeks distance from each other?

Daniel Sejer said...

I've seen similar stuff before but never close to identical graphical abstract and in the same journal!

Unknown said...

actually, there was a very similar case in the very same journal probably before graphical abstracts, with a German and a Dutch group publishing their work on propylenimine dendrimers.

one of the papers is
E. M. M. de Brabander-van den Berg and E. W. Meijer, Angew. Chem.,
Int. Ed. Engl., 1993, 32, 1308, Angew. Chem., 1993, 105, 1370

Anonymous said...

Very similar situation to Keck and Wender's individual bryostatin work in JACS issue 21

Asia said...

Look at this...
http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/toc.page?incoden=jacsat&indecade=0&involume=130&inissue=17

Anonymous said...

:-) :-) :-)