I will approach this example of a molecule-of-the-year candidate - in fact the eventual winner in the reader poll -…
The Science education unit at the ACS publication C&EN publishes its list of molecules of the year (as selected by…
Around 1996, journals started publishing what became known as "ESI" or electronic supporting information, alongside the articles themselves, as a…
In 2023, we very much take for granted that everyone and pretty much everything is online. But it was not…
I am a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Historical group. Amongst other activities, it publishes two editions of a…
In an earlier post on this topic,‡ I described how the curly-arrows describing the mechanism of a nucleophilic addition at…
Some 13 years ago, I speculated about the longevity of the type of science communication then (and still now) represented…
The schematic representation of a chemical reaction mechanism is often drawn using a palette of arrows connecting or annotating the…
The Swern oxidation is a class of "activated" dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) reaction in which the active species is a chlorodimethylsulfonium…
Respiratory pigments are metalloproteins that transport O2, the best known being the bright red/crimson coloured hemoglobin in human blood. The…