Author Archive
Posted in April 25th, 2008
After many many years, the results of Pearly’s and Ling Rong’s Honours projects on Ni(II)-NHCs have finally been published in Organometallics. The paper entitled “Anagostic Interactions and Catalytic Activities of Sterically Bulky Benzannulated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Nickel(II)” is now available as an Organometallics ASAP online article.
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Posted in March 29th, 2008
Han Yuan’s article “Palladium(II) Pyrazolin-4-ylidenes: Remote N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes and Their Catalytic Application in Aqueous Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling“, published in Organometallics is being featured on the ACS Publications website as a Most-Accessed Article for the fourth-quarter (Oct-Dec) of 2007.
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Posted in March 26th, 2008
The recent years have seen some very extreme fraud cases, most of which were related to bio-related research. For example, in 2006 South Korean stem cell scientist Dr Hwang Woosuk was caught having fabricated results for his two Science papers published in 2004 and 2005. While some people (e.g. Norwegian Jon Sudbø) have been stripped [...]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
Helloween was the first Heavy Metal Band that I listened to many many many years ago…and I finally saw them in Fort Canning Park. Luckily this time it didn’t rain. The weather was good, the beer was nice and the concert was great. The best so far in Singapore, although the crowd was small. Happy, [...]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
Pearly who did her honours project in 2004/05 in our group has recently rejoined the group. She is currently working on a research project as part of her part-time M.Sc. degree at NUS. Good luck and good progress
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Posted in February 16th, 2008
What has happened recently? Here are some short updates, since I haven’t had much time recently to update the posts
Basu presented his poster at OZOM 4 – 4th Australian Organometallic Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, 06.-09.01.2008.
Vinh gave an oral presentation entitled “N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Pd(II) and [...]
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Posted in January 20th, 2008
Dream Theater, one of my long time favorite bands, played in Fort Canning Park, and this time I didn’t miss them. It was raining cats and dogs, but who cares… ;P Amazing musicians and great music. Check out John Petrucci’s solo!
Youtube Video: Dream Theater in Fort Canning Park
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Posted in December 30th, 2007
We all know annoying spam emails trying to sell viagra, software or other things. However in academia we have to face another type of spam, which is intended to be an application. The following is just one example that can probably be found in inboxes of many scientists throughout the world. Most people will just [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2007
With the developement and improvement of technologies and the internet, research has in general become more facile. Numerous online journals and databases help the scientist to stay “up-tp-date” in his area. In chemistry, improvements of analytical methodologies allow for a faster and more accurate indentification of unknown and new compounds. However, the above mentioned technology [...]
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Posted in November 25th, 2007
Jothibasu’s first paper entitled “Dipalladium Bis(μ-isopropylthiolato) Complexes with a [Pd2S2] Core Supported by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes” is now available as an Organometallics ASAP online article.
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