All Organic matter articles
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Opinion
Working in the chemical industries, plural
Despite often being presented as a monolith, there’s a huge variety of activities, working practices and reaction scales across industrial research
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The power of a printed chart
Even in this online era, some things are still best kept on paper
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Inertia, decisions and robots
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
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Exploring new fragments of chemical space
How medicinal and process chemists are working together to build better drugs
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(+)-iso-Phomopsene (and friends)
A non-obvious combination unleashes the power of electrocyclisation
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Beyond the ChatGPT hype
Large language models can be powerful tools for chemistry if we acknowledge their limits
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Opinion
Whiteboards and napkins
How chemical intuition and guesses become the precise numbers of chemistry
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Boosting cubane synthesis with photosensitizers
Leaping to a greener approach for cubane synthesis
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Organic chemists should place their trust in machine learning’s black box
Submitting to the higher power of abstraction can strengthen our insights
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What can we learn from East Palestine?
How chemists should learn to deal with spills in the lab and in the plant
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Curating data into pictures has nuances that are easy to overlook
But there are ways to balance the benefits of holistic data without causing information overload
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Opinion
What to expect when your customer’s quality auditor visits
Checking a chemical plant is meeting standards