As bioorthogonal as CBC is, we still have some respect to biofolk.[1] See, these people won’t be anywhere without chemistry. The sun of Barry Sharpless shines real close to me and burns me with the hot fire of click chemistry.[2] While the initial...

3D fanatics, rejoice! For there is now a simple way to add 3D representations of molecules to your blagoblag. Co-developed by Markus Sitzmann of NCI/CADD and Mr. Noel O’Blog, they have developed a simple script that you can load from the NCI website...

Excimer’s Lady Gaga post attracted a bit of outrage–wrongfully so, we believe.  Here at CBC, we like to think our readers know better than to take us seriously, unless we are talking about science.  (And even then…) Not everyone shares our...

  IT is ON again: Na Promoted Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols to Ketones, Tet. Lett., 2009, in press.   I’m not quite in a position yet to judge English (but shouldn’t there be a hyphen in the title?) In fact, what pissed me off is the negligence that...

I was recently at a very cool seminar given by some Konarka people, where they happened to mention that they were starting to make actual products for sale.[1, 2]  That’s news, right?  Research like mine is now commercial?  Sweet!  So I decided to...