Paying it Forward: Inspired by my Apprentice                 When I started in organic chemistry, my mentor agreed to train me on o...

“Are you wearing heels?” I asked, and my mother nodded. “Mom, trust me, you don’t want to wear them in lab. You s...

Organic Letters is my favorite journal. There are a number of reasons why, and herein I will try and coerce you to take my stance.

I guess this blog post could be called "The Portable Chemist's Consultant Part 2" ( see part 1 here ). The reason for the exi...

Or, a completely unscientific survey of total syntheses published in JACS in the last 30 or so years.

In case you didn't know, Phil has been teaching a Heterocyclic Chemistry class here at Scripps since 2005 . This course consists of app...

Wel l, it s Monda y morning and the hoods are down at The Scripps Research Institute. Her e's a picture of the lab sitting in the hall ...