Khalid Mirza

Reminds me of neurosky: http://www.neurosky.com/ - Andrew Lang

Andy, I tried to interface a similar system to my computer a few years back and really disappointing - Jean-Claude Bradley

Yep, it is coming though - lot's of potential money out there for this technology - especially now the gaming industry is so big. - Andrew Lang

Every day could be sunny- Guaranteed! Russian way of snow removal- don't let it fall! - Khalid Mirza from Bookmarklet

Statistics applied incorrectly = bad science - Khalid Mirza from Bookmarklet

"Everyone loves neat tricks in synthesis that are not as easy to spot in retrosynthesis as oxidations or reductions; one of these I came across recently is the conversion of furans to tetrahydropyrans, the Achmatowicz reaction, the seminal publication of which was in 1971 in Tetrahedron: This reaction was used in a few total syntheses; besides those mentioned in the Wikipedia article, I particularly like O'Doherty's synthesis of the indolizidine (-)-D-Swainsonine published in Org. Lett. The four carbons that will form the five-membered ring of the bicyclic system was formed using the Achmatowicz reaction. 2-Lithiofuran opened the gamma-butyrolactone to install the alpha-oxygen; a TBS protection allowed for asymmetric Noyori reduction of the ketone, installing the necessary stereocenter for the substituent on the tetrahydropuran for the subsequent steps. The Achmatowicz was achieved using NBS." - Khalid Mirza from Bookmarklet

That is certainly something to keep in mind but I don't think you would have enough O2 in the system for quantitative conversion of the furans. From what I recall furans do react with strong acids and you would have to compare what would happen from the info in those papers. - Jean-Claude Bradley

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