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The ups and downs of cyclohexane
Cyclohexane is undoubtedly an iconic molecule. Many of us learned to draw it (with varying degrees of proficiency) very early on in our organic chemistry classes as we were introduced to chairs, boats, half-chairs, twist-boats, cis, trans, A-values, conformation and, … Continue reading →
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Tagged axial, barton, beckett, chemistry, cyclohexane, dual publication, equatorial, hassel, history of science, ingold, jacs, nature, nomenclature, pitzer, prelog, science, spitzer, stereochemistry, topics in stereochemistry
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The last writes
Earlier this week I was looking through the references of a paper that will eventually be published in Nature Chemistry and I noticed the name ‘Brown, H. C.’ in one of them. After checking out the paper in question, I … Continue reading →
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Tagged barton, brown, chemistry, journals, publishing, smalley, winstein, woodward
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