Jermey Smith
We love Jeremy Smith’s recent list of desert island chemistry papers in his recent interview with Chemistry World. There is one paper in particular which Jeremy highlights which I am keen to point out to all you Dalton Trans. readers…… it is an old JOC paper written entirely in verse which is fantastic:
Comparative mobility of halogens in reactions of dihalobenzenes with potassium amide in ammonia
J F Bunnett and F J Kearley,
J. Org. Chem., 1971, 36, 84, DOI: 10.1021/jo00800a036
Jeremy is based at New Mexico State University and works on metal complexes of strongly donating ligands, such as tris(carbene)borates and metal ligand multiple bonds.
Check out the full Chemistry World interview here: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2011/September/30091102.asp
