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What’s your glassware cleaning procedure?
A long time ago, when I was still in organic chemistry, I practically found it better to not try to get the glassware as clean as possible, but do be fine with 99.9% clean (I never …
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Scale-up parameters
By what maximum factor is it safe to scale up a reaction? I've heard 4X and 10X -- what do you think?
For example, let's say you're moving from bench-scale (max 12L RBF) to kilo- …
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Alcohol benzylation under neutral conditions?
What's a high-yielding alcohol benzylation procedure that works under neutral conditions?
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1answer
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What’s your favorite preparative organic reaction?
Please supply reaction scheme images for your favorite reactions. I need some good examples to illustrate (using Reaxys) how a given functionality is converted into another functio …
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Synthesis of 2,3,6,7-tetrabromoanthracene?
What's a short route (4 steps or less) to 2,3,6,7-tetrabromoanthracene:
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What are good online resources for synthetic practices and “collective wisdom?”
Besides this site (which is more interactive), I'm aware of Not Voodoo.
Are there any other good sources for beginning synthetic students?
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Synthesis of this oxadiazolotriazinone carboxylic acid?
Innocentive are offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who can provide a supply of this oxadiazolotriazinone by Nov. 29, 2009:
What would be one workable route to this compound?
