Kirstine Anderson
Kirstine has worked as a publishing editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry since September 2022. After completing a PhD in protein structure at Imperial College London, she took a postdoctoral position at the University of Leeds before spending 13 years teaching A-level chemistry. She secretly wants to be a novelist, but is happy to occasionally write for Chemistry World instead.
Outside of work, Kirstine keeps busy parenting three of the noisiest children in the UK, alongside volunteering with a youth organisation and as a school governor. On the rare occasion that she has some spare time, she builds Lego, crafts, reads or attempts to learn piano.
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Synthesis developed by pillararene pioneers overcomes steric hindrance while preserving macrocycle’s pillar-shaped structure
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Protocol transforms arenols into benzazepines
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Benzoyldiisopropylchlorosilane protects primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols, and also works alongside other protecting groups