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Synthetic reactions inside detergent micelles: Bruce Lipshutz at the #ACSSanFran

Synthetic reactions inside detergent micelles: Bruce Lipshutz at the #ACSSanFran

On Sunday afternoon, I went to a symposium in honour of Bruce Lipshutz, who won the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods. The line-up of dynamic chemists and one chemical engineer!) was impressive and his work stood out as being truly ground-breaking.  Read more

Top 100 papers of all time

Top 100 papers of all time

I recently gave a talk in Singapore about publishing in Nature Protocols. When I give these talks, one of the things I explain is why Nature Publishing Group is interested in publishing methodological information. For that specific talk I had great new supporting document – an article in the previous weeks Nature about the “top 100 papers”. Of course, my top 100 papers is going to be very different from yours, but the top 100 for the purposes of this article was defined as the most cited papers of all time in the Science Citation Index, owned by Thomson Reuters.  Read more

Competition time!

Competition time!

I’m really pleased with the way that the Browse function that we have implemented for Protocols is working. I keep finding different ways to use it. As anyone who has been following our Twitter feed, and you really should be, will have seen we have used the browse to assemble lists of Protocols relating to quite specific subject areas. We have done: Stable isotope labelling for mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography and Synthetic Chemistry.  Read more