{"id":3755,"date":"2012-06-21T22:58:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2012-06-21T22:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:58:44","slug":"blogroll-whatsinlemishine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/06\/blogroll-whatsinlemishine.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogroll: #WhatsInLemiShine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: Now that Neil has left the Nature Chemistry fold<\/a> to move over to Chemistry World, we have invited bloggers out there in the wild to compose our monthly Blogroll column. First on deck: Chemjobber<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A real-time collaborative determination of an unknown chemical compound, and a graduate student tackles teaching organometallic chemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember when Paul Docherty<\/a> of Totally Synthetic live-blogged<\/a> an attempt to reproduce the reported oxidation of benzylic alcohols with sodium hydride? Adam Azman<\/a> of Chemistry Blog<\/a> recently went a step further in both speed and collaboration. During a conversation on Twitter about the identity of the trade-secret dishwasher detergent additive Lemi Shine and its remarkable ability to solubilize hard-water stains, Azman asked what chemists would like to know to identify the active ingredient. Answers from around the world flooded in, requesting both physical property data and instrumental analyses.<\/p>\n

The following day, Azman performed wet chemistry to determine the identity of the compound, all while reporting his results on Twitter and taking suggestions for further experiments. Even images of GC-MS traces and NMR spectra (1H and 13C) were posted. The conclusion? Lemi Shine’s active ingredient was citric acid. When asked for comment from Lemi Shine (via Twitter), they responded with a cryptic \u201cOh so close, but no cigar.\u201d To see if you agree with Azman as to the identity of the active ingredient, go to Chemistry Blog for a summary of the experiments<\/a>. This episode has also inspired others to tweet experimental chemistry results, all under the hashtag #RealTimeChem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How are you on the principles of backbonding? Forgotten the details of an open coordination site? Graduate student Michael Evans<\/a> says that \u201cthere is a better way to teach organometallic chemistry.\u201d Towards that end, he’s started The Organometallic Reader<\/a>, where he posts an in-depth lesson each week. These excellent, readable posts are a good primer for the novice and a nice refresher for the experienced chemist.<\/p>\n

Written by Chemjobber<\/a> who blogs at https:\/\/www.chemjobber.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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[As mentioned in this post<\/a>, we\u2019re posting the monthly blogroll column here on the Sceptical Chymist. This is July\u2019s article<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Now that Neil has left the Nature Chemistry fold to move over to Chemistry World, we have invited bloggers out there in the wild to compose our monthly Blogroll column. First on deck: Chemjobber.  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-we-like","category-stuart-cantrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}