Monday, February 22, 2010

Open Innovation

This site has a great deal of open challanges in almost all the areas of intrest. More importantly each of the challenge is accompanied with a reward, obvious driving force. So the crux is that innovation is not restricted to 4-walls any longer. Here is the open community, open science, open research and open solution, where any one can post their challanges and invite everyonelse to solve it...
http://www.innocentive.com/

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Scientists Create New Way to Screen Libraries of 10 Million or More Compounds



Microarray screening alows to screen theoretically 64million compounds.

For original article: Chemistry & Biology, 2010; 17 (1): 38 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.12.015

New chiral sulphide for asymmetric epoxidations and aziridinations



Elegant chiral sulphide synthesis and applications in asymmetric epoxidations and aziridinations giving excellent ee's. Nice peice of work with huge potential.
JACS communications
DOI: 10.1021/ja9100276DOI: 10.1021/ja9100276

Can Cyclohexane be chiral?


see this Henry Rezpa's blog.

http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=1587