As a synthetic organic chemist what I would like at the end of the day are some white or colourless crystals. However, off-white, tan or yellow amorphous solid is more or less what you expect to end up with. But when I get bright pink, purple and green stuff I really don't know what to make of it. D!
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I recently did a rather modest web design job for my boss and he has promised a rather modest reward in return -specifically a chemistry and/or drug design book. I have, I think, a few books which I consider to be absolute essentia.... Read Post
The other day I was talking to a synthetic chemist friend about conducting reactions at low temperature and I realized that there is another reason for doing this that is not always appreciated by beginning organic chemistry student... Read Post
For most organic chemists (or synthetic chemists in general), if you were to ask them which program they use most on a dat-to-day basis, there would be one overwhelmingly popular answer: ChemDraw. The ChemBioOffice suite from Cambr... Read Post