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Negative Results Journal

Hi all,

I don’t know how many of us know such a journal exists (i know only few minutes earlier).

Its called "Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine" with an imaginary impact factor of 1.64. See the link, http://www.jnrbm.com/

In industry i wonder how many 'dead end' results, which might have been of interest to academics and potentially significant, just get buried in notebooks and forgotten forever. Also like simple quenching process, avoiding a column, increase in yields, results were only few substrates work for unknown reason etc…. are get unnoticed and doesn’t get scientific recoginition.

I have already said in my blog few years back that my interest to create “Imaginary Journal of Organic Chemistry” i-JOC. (Unlike Nature Protocols) and several others have similar interest. Just want kill the perception that negative results in “Organic Chemistry” are useless. Its kind of recognition for the time they have spent to find something doesn’t work (in otherwords: unpublishable). All this could be a reality soon.

If any other journal of this kind exists, I will be curious to know.

Thanks for the time,
Ahamed Muneer Ahamed.

Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes

One step technology to convert sugars into alkanes. Could be a recipie for a $50 oil per barrel?

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5991/559

See the above article published in Science, also see this below link for a discussion.

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/07/29/ls9-shows-recipe-for-50-oil-genes-that-convert-sugar-to-diesel-in-one-step/

Exponential Economy

See this site, have some nice information.

http://www.xconomy.com/

Clean energy from cobalt catalysts

http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/SC/article.asp?doi=c0sc00281j
Chem. Sci., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00281j

Plastic Bottles from CO2

Here we go. Recycling CO2 to make plastic bottles.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/July/28071001.asp
Is this like processing a pollutent to make one? Although a nice technology, but are these plastics eco friendly?

Poh's Kitchen

Yesterday i tried a excellent recepie from the last season Master Chef Runner-up Poh. It was a malaysian-indian fish curry. Was just excellent.
Here is the website.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/pohskitchen/

Postgraduate Scholarship Database for Australia

JASON is a postgraduate scholarship search engine. Scholarships in the database apply to Australian students wishing to study at home or abroad, and to international students wishing to study in Australia.

http://www.jason.edu.au/index.pl

India - Global Drug Maker

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/business/global/07indiadrug.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all

DNA-based asymmetric catalysis

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010, 39, 2083 - 2092, DOI: 10.1039/b811349c

Umpolung reactivity in amide and peptide synthesis

Non conventional way to make a peptide bond.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7301/abs/nature09125.html