I have variously talked about persistent identifiers on this blog. These largely take the form of DOIs (Digital object identifiers),…
Sometimes, the properties of a molecule are predicted long before it is synthesised. One such is diberyllocene. I first encountered…
This is a venerable organic reaction, which curiously I have not previously covered here. First described in 1859, its nature…
This editorial from Nature is a timely reminder of the importance of data. But also, not just any data, but…
Some time ago in 2010, I showed a chemical problem I used to set during university entrance interviews. It was…
One of the important aspects of chemical reaction mechanisms is the order in which things happen. More specifically, the order…
Science frequently works by people making connections between related (or even apparently unrelated) concepts or data. There are many ways…
Nature has produced most natural molecules as chiral objects, which means the molecule can come in two enantiomeric forms, each…
I have previously looked at the pigments used to colour the Book of Kells, which dates from around 800 AD…
In the previous post, I discussed how data associated with two of the candidates for molecules of the year -…