Four stages in the evolution of interactive ESI as part of articles in chemistry journals.

2 years ago

A previous post was triggered by Peter alerting me that interactive electronic supporting information (IESI) we had submitted to a…

Unexpected Isomerization of Oxetane-Carboxylic Acids – an alternative autocatalytic mechanism evaluated.

2 years ago

Previously, I looked at autocatalytic mechanisms where the carboxyl group of an oxetane-carboxylic acid could catalyse its transformation to a…

Unexpected Isomerization of Oxetane-Carboxylic Acids – substrate design.

2 years ago

Having established a viable model for the unexpected isomerism of oxetane carboxylic acids to lactones, and taken a look at…

Unexpected Isomerization of Oxetane-Carboxylic Acids – catalyst design.

2 years ago

Previously, a mechanism with a reasonable predicted energy was modelled for the isomerisation of an oxetane carboxylic acid to a…

Web page decay and Journals: How an interactive “ESI” from 2006 was rescued.

2 years ago

In 2006 we published an article illustrating various types of pseudorotations in small molecules. It's been cited 20 times since…

Unexpected Isomerization of Oxetane-Carboxylic Acids – a viable mechanism

2 years ago

In the previous post, I looked at the intramolecular rearrangement of the oxetane carboxylic acid to a lactone, finding the…

Unexpected Isomerization of Oxetane-Carboxylic Acids – a first look at the mechanism

2 years ago

Derek Lowe's blog has a recent post entitled A Downside to Oxetane Acids which picks up on a recent article…

Personal Impressions from WATOC 2020 – Dispersion and non Born-Oppenheimer models.

2 years ago

WATOC 2020 was just held in 2022 in Vancouver Canada, over one week. With many lectures held in parallel, it…

Dioxane tetraketone – an ACS molecule of the week with a mystery.

2 years ago

I have long been fascinated by polymers of either carbon dioxide,† or carbon monoxide, or combinations of both. One such molecule,…

Checking a conclusion we made in 1987: Tetrahedral intermediates formed by nitrogen and oxygen attack of aromatic hydroxylamines on acetyl cyanide

2 years ago

Minds (and memories) can work in wonderful ways. In 1987 we were looking at the properties of "stable" tetrahedral intermediates…