tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post2253407789127618892..comments2024-03-27T21:23:40.339-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: Who started the 'matchmaker' palladium meme?Chemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-62990484937684071312010-10-12T19:56:45.422-04:002010-10-12T19:56:45.422-04:00@Barney: Speaking of dancing catalysts, check out ...@Barney: Speaking of dancing catalysts, check out this Lithiuanian performance:<br /><br />http://vimeo.com/14469308Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-25249489095210690462010-10-12T14:41:48.327-04:002010-10-12T14:41:48.327-04:00I'm not sure if this is what you're lookin...I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for - it's not specific to Pd or cross-couplings - but it seems that <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=WScDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA68&dq=catalysts+are+like+matchmakers&hl=en&ei=2KW0TI-sNoPMnAeq7o3_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">Popular Science</a> called chemistry catalysts "matchmakers" way back in 1937, in an article entitled "Chemical Matchmakers... Home Experiments Show Strange Behavior of Catalysts".<br /><br />More recently (2007) Dr. Geoff Coates of Cornell was quoted in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/science/19poly.html?fta=y" rel="nofollow">New York Times</a> article:<br /><br />“Catalysts are like a matchmaker who make a marriage and then can go off and make other marriages, Dr. Coates said. “They accelerate a reaction without being consumed by that reaction.”Sharonhttp://icanhasscience.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-67899072433225326092010-10-12T10:36:18.105-04:002010-10-12T10:36:18.105-04:00I'm kind of surprised that a Lego analogy neve...I'm kind of surprised that a Lego analogy never got used. As in, "these chemists discovered that palladium catalysts allowed them to snap molecules together like bricks of Lego". Or something like that.Jameshttp://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-17209258964478924532010-10-12T09:36:31.156-04:002010-10-12T09:36:31.156-04:00For the 2005 nobel prize, they used the somewhat l...For the 2005 nobel prize, they used the somewhat less catchy "change-your-partners dance" to describe catalysis.Barneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870055736793776057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-87008280373726482010-10-12T08:31:53.596-04:002010-10-12T08:31:53.596-04:00I've never heard that before either, but I rea...I've never heard that before either, but I really hope they pick up on that on chemistry.com.Leigh Krietsch Boernerhttp://cenblog.org/just-another-electron-pusher/noreply@blogger.com