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Review: ChemDraw for iPad 23 Aug 2013 | 09:02 am
A long time ago, the people at Perkin-Elmer gave me a free download of their not-yet-released ChemDraw app for the iPad. The product eventually launched and I never got around to reviewing it because ...
Some Very Peculiar NMR Spectra in Organic Letters 19 Aug 2013 | 12:32 pm
A close examination of the Supporting Information attached to this paper from 2011 in Organic Letters reveals some pretty interesting NMR spectra: (compound 5d – full spectrum) Hmmmmm. I have collec...
How Should the Online Community Handle Suspicious Papers? 18 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
The latest news regarding the Dorta paper in Organometallics is that Emma Drinkel’s mother wrote an e-mail to Fredrik von Kieseritzky that is posted to his chemistry blog, Synthetic Remarks. You will ...
Some VERY Suspicious TEM Images in Nano Letters 14 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
Mitch at Chemistry-Blog has a new post about a set of very suspicious TEM images that was published recently in the journal Nano Letters. The associated paper reports the fabrication of pairs of gold...
Dorta Paper Link Roundup 14 Aug 2013 | 09:12 am
For chemistry news stories that generate a lot of fragmented discussion online, I like to post a list of links to facilitate keeping track of everything. This post may be updated; I think there’s a go...
The OM Paper vs. Drinkel’s PhD Thesis 9 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
As part of our investigation into the controversial paper published by Reto Dorta and coworkers in Organometallics, ChemBark contacted a source in Europe who was able to obtain a copy of the Ph.D. dis...
Organometallics Responds to the Dorta Situation 9 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
As was first reported—I believe—by “Dr. MJP” in the comments thread of ChemBark’s original report on the Dorta paper, the editor-in-chief of Organometallics is distributing a letter to parties who hav...
A Disturbing Note in a Recent SI File 7 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
A recently published ASAP article in the journal Organometallics is sure to raise some eyebrows in the chemical community. While the paper itself is a straightforward study of palladium and platinum b...
Hacks for Septa 5 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am
The Sure/Seal (TM) septa on top of Aldrich bottles are anything but. As soon as you pierce one of those puppies to extract some anhydrous solvent, you can be certain that subsequent aliquots will be o...
Road Trip 1 Aug 2013 | 07:21 am
Oh. Hello there. Once again, apologies for the dearth of posting. I’d promise it’ll never happen again, but it’ll probably happen again… Anyway, after a nine-day road trip through seven states in on...
