ChemCafé

It’s been a while since last post… I’ve been quite busy for several reasons, such as trying to get some of my research published, taking part at the annual meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society and, last but not least, spending three weeks doing military service – Switzerland still has mandatory military service for [...]

A couple of months ago, I had to struggle very hard in order to be allowed to use osmium tetroxide for my experiments. Safety rules enforced at my institute make it almost impossible to obtain this apparently super toxic compound… so my curiosity was excited when I found a paper in PNAS (also commented on [...]