Comments on: Just a Suggestion http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2008/06/20/just-a-suggestion/ We have technical difficulties, it will take a day or two to get back to normal. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:51:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Judy Hutchins http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2008/06/20/just-a-suggestion/comment-page-1/#comment-4269 Judy Hutchins Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:55:47 +0000 http://www.chemistry-blog.com/?p=269#comment-4269 As long as I've got funding, I go for practicability every day. I'm working for a cleaning products company and I have to experiment with different cleaning chemicals to come up with the next "best" cleaning product. Part time I lecture at Stony Brook to graduate students, and I teach students that in the real world, you have to either produce results or depending on where you work, you can save the company or organization you work for money by not taking too many risks when conducting experiments. As long as I’ve got funding, I go for practicability every day. I’m working for a cleaning products company and I have to experiment with different cleaning chemicals to come up with the next “best” cleaning product. Part time I lecture at Stony Brook to graduate students, and I teach students that in the real world, you have to either produce results or depending on where you work, you can save the company or organization you work for money by not taking too many risks when conducting experiments.

]]> By: J http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2008/06/20/just-a-suggestion/comment-page-1/#comment-1434 J Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:40:25 +0000 http://www.chemistry-blog.com/?p=269#comment-1434 I never had the chance to use Vogel before, though I own a copy of (I think) the second edition (published ~1940). I'll have to add the 5th edition to my Amazon wishlist, too. Orgsyn is pretty helpful too, but I often struggle to find the right procedure I need. In addition, I wish Orgsyn would redesign their website and/or get rid of the survey they've been running forever. I never had the chance to use Vogel before, though I own a copy of (I think) the second edition (published ~1940). I’ll have to add the 5th edition to my Amazon wishlist, too.

Orgsyn is pretty helpful too, but I often struggle to find the right procedure I need. In addition, I wish Orgsyn would redesign their website and/or get rid of the survey they’ve been running forever.

]]> By: Jared http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2008/06/20/just-a-suggestion/comment-page-1/#comment-1432 Jared Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:44:56 +0000 http://www.chemistry-blog.com/?p=269#comment-1432 Great suggestions! This is something I have struggled with a lot as well . . . efficiency vs. practicability. I would add that one excellent free reference is the Organic Synthesis website, and one not-so-free reference that is steeped in trie-and-true methods for classical organic synthesis is Vogel's Practical Organic Chemistry. Jared Great suggestions! This is something I have struggled with a lot as well . . . efficiency vs. practicability. I would add that one excellent free reference is the Organic Synthesis website, and one not-so-free reference that is steeped in trie-and-true methods for classical organic synthesis is Vogel’s Practical Organic Chemistry.

Jared

]]> By: psi*psi http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2008/06/20/just-a-suggestion/comment-page-1/#comment-1428 psi*psi Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:48:32 +0000 http://www.chemistry-blog.com/?p=269#comment-1428 Wow, that looks useful! I can Scifinder like my life depends on it, and can get most published procedures to work reasonably well unless they hate my substrate, but when there ISN'T something to follow...I'm lost. Ordering a copy. Hopefully it will help. Wow, that looks useful! I can Scifinder like my life depends on it, and can get most published procedures to work reasonably well unless they hate my substrate, but when there ISN’T something to follow…I’m lost. Ordering a copy. Hopefully it will help.

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