Today, Vinogradova, Muller, and Buchwald have an excellent piece of investigative science in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. that I think is great, just great. And honestly, I'm a bit jaded and easily unimpressed (especially when the work isn't directly applicable to me finishing my Ph.D.). In fact, I liked this paper enough to write about it, and not just tweet it on the sidebar <---over there.
Lets start with a summary of why I think its great.
1. They decided to take a closer look at a "known" system - and they learned something new.
2. They crystallized a liquid using the work by Fujita et al.
...And onward with a more in depth look...
