The following is a short, possibly humorous essay providing two concrete ideas to increase reproducibility in science research. The two ideas are united under the notion of a “culture of reproduc...
Read ItThe following document is the approximate transcript for a directed discussion on the topic of work and family balance. The audience contained mostly professionals in chemistry (academia and indu...
Read ItOn the Number of Phthalates Recently, four cover stories of C&EN magazine were dedicated to the class of molecules called phthalates. Phthalate esters of fatty alcohols are generally used...
Read ItSimplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System or SMILES is a notation scheme for representing chemical structures in a single line of text, encoding atom connectivity and stereochemistry, as well ...
Read ItInfra-red spectroscopy of molecules was introduced 110 years ago by Coblentz[1] as the first functional group spectroscopic method (” The structure of the compound has a great influence on the abso...
Read ItI recently followed this bloggers trail; link1 → link2 to arrive at this delightful short commentary on atom-atom bonds in crystals by Jack Dunitz. Here he discusses that age-old question (to chemi...
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