/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2009-05-27T07:23:59-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/05/27/surfin_on_the_surface.php There are a lot of ways to think about the chemical reagents that we have stirring around in our flasks. But one of the basic ones, and one of the most useful, divides them into classes according to whether they’re... 73894@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Life in the Drug Labs 2009-05-27T07:23:59-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/09/16/neil_bartlett_19322008.php I’ve neglected to note the death of Neil Bartlett, famous for showing that the noble gases would in fact form chemical bonds. This work was a real triumph, since the great majority of scientific opinion at the time was that... 73540@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Inorganic Chemistry 2008-09-16T07:34:20-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/05/15/copper_a_gentlemans_disagreement.php I was running a copper-catalyzed coupling reaction the other day when my summer intern asked me how it worked. I showed her the mechanism that the authors of the paper had proposed, but pointed out that it was mostly hand-waving.... 73303@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Inorganic Chemistry 2008-05-15T07:28:47-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/04/28/a_salute.php Dr. Warfield Teague is retiring this year, which makes me feel old. He was one of the professors who helped make me what I am today – in his case, partly by keeping me out of his chosen field of... 73258@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Inorganic Chemistry 2008-04-28T07:25:42-05:00