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The Not Voodoo website after twenty dynamic years

2024 marks twenty years of the educational website Not Voodoo: Demystifying Synthetic Organic Chemistry — a fount of knowledge for organic chemistry laboratory techniques, with tips and tricks for both beginning research students and advanced experimentalists. 

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Fig. 1: Timeline (2004–2024).

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The website has been supported by grant support from the NSF, from 2003 to the present (current support; CHE-2154854). I am grateful for excellent programming and web development collaborators: H. Stern (OG/Version 1: 2003–2014); C. Bauer (Build X; 2013–2016); Z. Ab Aziz (Build X.4; 2017–2018) and the IT team at the University of Rochester (2020–present, special thanks to B. Ferrigno and N. Scipione). Without their contributions, Not Voodoo would not exist.

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Not Voodoo Site Map: https://www.chem.rochester.edu/notvoodoo/sitemap.php

Rookie Mistakes Top Ten: https://www.chem.rochester.edu/notvoodoo/pages/rookie_mistakes.php?page=top_ten

Twitter (X) Profile: https://x.com/Not_Voodoo

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Frontier, A.J. The Not Voodoo website after twenty dynamic years. Nat Rev Chem 8, 713–714 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-024-00644-9

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