Metals: facts, factoids and some not quite related stuff too
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I like the way the journals such as Biology Direct now publish reviewers comments and authors responses together with a final version of the paper. The fact that reviewers names are made public ensure that reviewers are properly acknowledged as well as share...
Online registration for 7th International Biometals Symposium (BioMetals 2010) is now open. The meeting will take place in Tucson, Arizona, USA, July 2530, 2010.Sessions are planned on Arsenic: Toxicity and Transformation; Siderophores and Iron Transport; Interplay...
The al of alchemy is an Arabic article, but what about the rest of the word? Wikipedia mentions theories favouring Egyptian, Greek or Persian origin of the root. Whatever the etymology, it looks like ancient Egyptians knew quite a lot of chemistry.This table...
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linked to by 2Ferrocene was discovered in 1951 and we still do not know the proper way to draw it. CrossFire example recommends to connect every carbon atom of the ring to the central metal atom. Which is fair enough and will be a valid query for CrossFire Gmelin database....
I like the way the journals such as Biology Direct now publish reviewers comments and authors responses together with a final version of the paper. The fact that reviewers names are made public ensure that reviewers are properly acknowledged as well as share...
Online registration for 7th International Biometals Symposium (BioMetals 2010) is now open. The meeting will take place in Tucson, Arizona, USA, July 2530, 2010.Sessions are planned on Arsenic: Toxicity and Transformation; Siderophores and Iron Transport; Interplay...
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Rich Apodaca has asked me to show how CML can deal with metallocene compounds - and I’m happy to do this - it comes at a very good time. He points to Metallome blog and I’ll copy some of the material on ferrocene. I’ll show the post and then...
Here's a simple question: what's the best way to draw ferrocene?This question was posed in a recent article on Metallome. It turns out there are some differences of opinion.But this problem isn't limited to 'drawing' ferrocene - it extends to storing, transmitting,...
