Thesis in 2014

Michelle Francl wonders what makes benzene resonate with chemists.

Bruce Gibb wonders whether our faith in chemistry — and what it can teach us about the Universe beyond our Earthly bounds — will have a role to play in the search for alien life.

Michelle Francl wonders if the harem effect in crystallography is overrated.

They might not be fundamental constants of nature, but atomic weights are one of the foundations on which modern chemistry is built, explains Juris Meija.

Bruce Gibb looks back at some examples of irreproducible reactions in his own laboratory and suggests ways in which the reproducibility of chemical reactions can be maximized.

Michelle Francl suggests that students should be trained to write in a fashion similar to how they are taught the principles and practice of NMR spectroscopy — by providing them with a limited set of patterns and parameters.

Howard Colquhoun and Jean-François Lutz consider the potential of synthetic polymers for storing information at the molecular level.

Bruce Gibb finds wonder in the landscape of chemistry research.

Michelle Francl suggests that self-plagiarism is a misleading term and that repeating yourself in publications isn't always a bad thing.

Bruce Gibb laments the bloated administrations that are damaging universities.