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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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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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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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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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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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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Han Yuan’s 6th paper entitled “Palladium(II) Pyrazolin-4-ylidenes: Remote N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes and Their Catalytic Application in Aqueous Suzuki−Miyaura Coupling” is now available as an Organometallics ASAP online article.

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Today, Basu’s second paper entitled “Au(I) and Au(III) complexes of a sterically bulky benzimidazole-derived N-heterocyclic carbene” has just been accepted for publication in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. More will come

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Han Yuan’s 5th paper and her third in Organometallics entitled “Syntheses and Characterizations of Pd(II) Complexes Incorporating a N-Heterocyclic Carbene and Aromatic N-Heterocycles” is now available as an ASAP online article.

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Basu’s first paper entitled “Dipalladium bis(µ-isopropylthiolato) complexes with a [Pd2S2] core supported by N-heterocyclic carbenes” has just been accepted for publication in Organometallics. Well done!

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