Posts Tagged ‘Royal Society of Chemistry’
Sunday, November 4th, 2018
For perhaps ten years now, the future of scientific publishing has been hotly debated. The traditional models are often thought to be badly broken, although convergence to a consensus of what a better model should be is not apparently close. But to my mind, much of this debate seems to miss one important point, how to publish data.
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Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, article processing charge, article processing charges, artificial intelligence, Chemical IT, Cognition, Company: RSC, Electronic publishing, G factor, Hybrid open access journal, Knowledge, Michael Dewar, Nature, online era, Open access, Predatory publishing, Publishing, researcher, Royal Society of Chemistry, Scholarly communication, Science, Technology/Internet
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Thursday, October 18th, 2018
The Royal Society of Chemistry historical group (of which I am a member) organises two or three one day meetings a year. Yesterday the October meeting covered (amongst other themes) the fascinating history of madder and its approximately synthetic equivalent alizarin. Here I add a little to the talk given by Alan Dronsfield on the synthesis of alizarin and the impact this had on the entire industry.
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Tags:Alan Dronsfield, Alizarin, Anthraquinone dyes, Art materials, BASF, Carl Gräbe, Carl Graebe, Carl Liebermann, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Catechols, Colors, cryoEM MicroEM, Dihydroxyanthraquinones, Dye, Historical, Mauve, Mauveine, Rapid structure determination of microcrystalline molecular compounds, Royal Society of Chemistry, Shades of violet, William Bragg, William Perkin
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
Publishing embargoes seem a relatively new phenomenon, probably starting in areas of science when the data produced for a scientific article was considered more valuable than the narrative of that article. However, the concept of the embargo seems to be spreading to cover other aspects of publishing, and I came across one recently which appears to take such embargoes into new and uncharted territory.
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Tags:Academic publishing, Chemical IT, Embargo, Open access, Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry, Technology/Internet, Uncharted, Uncharted Territory
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
In London, one has the pleasures of attending occasional one day meetings at the Burlington House, home of the Royal Society of Chemistry. On November 5th this year, there was an excellent meeting on the topic of Challenges in Catalysis, and you can see the speakers and (some of) their slides here. One talk on the topic of Direct amide formation – the issues, the art, the industrial application by Dave Jackson caught my interest. He asked whether an amide could be formed directly from a carboxylic acid and an amine without the intervention of an explicit catalyst. The answer involved noting that the carboxylic acid was itself a catalyst in the process, and a full mechanistic exploration of this aspect can be found in an article published in collaboration with Andy Whiting’s group at Durham.[1] My after-thoughts in the pub centered around the recollection that I had written some blog posts about the reaction between hydroxylamine and propanone. Might there be any similarity between the two mechanisms?
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References
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H. Charville, D.A. Jackson, G. Hodges, A. Whiting, and M.R. Wilson, "The Uncatalyzed Direct Amide Formation Reaction - Mechanism Studies and the Key Role of Carboxylic Acid H-Bonding", European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2011, pp. 5981-5990, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201100714
Tags:Andy Whiting, Dave Jackson, dielectric, Durham, energy profile, free energy barrier, London, non-polar solution, PDF, Royal Society of Chemistry
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
As a personal retrospective of my use of computers (in chemistry), the Macintosh plays a subtle role. (more…)
Tags:Apple computer, Appletalk, Australia, chemical, Chemical IT, copy-editor, ethernet, Eudora, Fibre optic, GBP, hand-drawn chemical diagrams, Historical, IBM, laser printer, Mac OS X, Macintosh, megabit network, mouse pointing device, multigate routers, operating system, Pirelli, Pittsburgh, proper network, Royal Society of Chemistry, stereographics device, telephone negotiation, Tim Berners-Lee, Webster multigate routers, XML
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