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This post is contributed by John Spevacek, an industrial polymer chemist and the author of the blog “It’s the Rheo Thing” Nature had a report last week of a nice new catalytic procedure for preparation of spiroacetals - bicyclic compounds bridged through a single acetal carbon. When I read the report, I was surprised that [...]
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John Spevacek is at Aspen Research, and works on thiol-ene polymerization, mostly with UV initiation. 1. What made you want to be a chemist? In grade school, I wanted to grow up and become a mad scientist, blowing up the lab everyda... Read Post

This post is contributed by John Spevacek, an industrial polymer chemist and the author of the blog “It’s the Rheo Thing” Quintus guest-blogged recently on that iconic sandwich molecule, ferrocene, an iron atom sandwiched between tw... Read Post

This post is contributed by John Spevacek, an industrial polymer chemist and the author of the blog “It’s the Rheo Thing” While organic chemists are familiar with the elements, very seldom do we ever make [...] Read Post