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Former chemist here. I disagree - you try many many reactions that fail. It would be good to just see what was tried so you can 1) see what was tried so you c
by Vaslo 3y ago
Former chemist here. I disagree - you try many many reactions that fail. It would be good to just see what was tried so you can 1) see what was tried so you can change the conditions and try again or 2) avoid an approach altogether. I joke in many of the forums here about making The journal of Failed Chemistry. But I am very serious about saving time so 10 different PhD candidates don’t waste the same time I did.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoBetter yet, your documented "failure" may be an unknown path to "success" in someone else's research context. This would basically be the same as caching the results of a brute-force attack; except instead of trying to break the entropy of encryption, we are trying to unravel the entropy of chemistry and physics.