Monday, February 20, 2017

Dry Column Vacuum Chromatography (DCVC) - The Movie!

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I have on several occasions been asked to make a DCVC video tutorial and quite liked the idea of doing so. Thus, I have started my acting c...
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Friday, September 05, 2014

Total Recall - Synthetic organic chemistry is kinda slow and complicated!

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To everyone's surprise I spent a day in the lab the other day doing some actual real life research. I forgot how hard, slow and compli...
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Friday, December 27, 2013

Curly Arrow - Established 18th October 2006

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It really is becoming the rule rather than the exception that I forget Curly Arrow's birthday. Its been running for 7 years now and ...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Free Ligands - The Calcilytic Agent NPS2143, a Calcium-Sensing Receptor Modulator

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We recently synthesised a significant quantity of the calcilytic ligand NPS2143 for our research programme on G protein-coupled receptors...
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Friday, August 09, 2013

Faking it - Elemental Analysis!

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Earlier this year I was refereeing a rather good paper and had I not taken the time to inspect the experimental section I would have accep...
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Monday, January 07, 2013

Anti-GMO activist sees the light!

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I picked this up at one of my favourite blogs ( in the pipeline ) and simply have to share it. A former fanatical anti-GMO campaigner read...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Curly Arrow - Established 18th October 2006

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So I missed my blog birthday again this year! As usual the stats for the past year at Curly Arrow follows below. Thanks to all the blog ...
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Diazomethane and the Arndt-Eistert Homologation

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For the past year we have been starting peptidomimetic chemistry up as a new research area in our group. Many chemists believe that peptid...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Diazotransfer - Synthesising Azides from Amines

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In our group we work a lot with diazotransfer reagents and diazomethane so I thought it might be a good idea to share some of our knowle...
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Thursday, March 08, 2012

Total Synthsis?

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We had our weekly journal club this morning. Interesting paper from a Korean group but maybe the ACS editorial office should wake up. D!
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