Monday, March 4, 2013

Blog Syn: is water the key ingredient? See Arr Oh says yes.

For those of you following the "IBX does benzylic oxidation (or does it?)" story, See Arr Oh appears to have found the missing reagent: water. Go over there and read.

(Isn't it time for every single chemistry department to have an open-access Karl Fischer titrator? Just askin'.) 

1 comment:

  1. This work makes me think that every paper published on pubs.acs.org deserves its own comment section. I can imagine it being abused, but there may be some good insights by having essentially a wider peer review where you don't have to pay to print your rebuttal.

    Good job Blog Syn people!

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