All Organic matter articles
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OpinionThe value of good software extends beyond its cost
Whether third-party or built in-house, thoughtful design and implementation can improve workflows and make science more inclusive
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OpinionAre you fooling yourself?
Charles Piller’s Doctored and the reality of falsehoods in science
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Opinion(–)-Scabrolide B (again!)
Proverbially, comparison may not bring joy – but it can be educational
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OpinionThe right level of trust in the scientific literature
An overreliance on what’s gone before can hinder innovation
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OpinionWorking in the chemical industries, plural
Despite often being presented as a monolith, there’s a huge variety of activities, working practices and reaction scales across industrial research
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OpinionThe power of a printed chart
Even in this online era, some things are still best kept on paper
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OpinionInertia, decisions and robots
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
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OpinionExploring new fragments of chemical space
How medicinal and process chemists are working together to build better drugs
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Opinion(+)-iso-Phomopsene (and friends)
A non-obvious combination unleashes the power of electrocyclisation
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OpinionBeyond the ChatGPT hype
Large language models can be powerful tools for chemistry if we acknowledge their limits
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OpinionWhiteboards and napkins
How chemical intuition and guesses become the precise numbers of chemistry
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OpinionBoosting cubane synthesis with photosensitizers
Leaping to a greener approach for cubane synthesis
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OpinionOrganic chemists should place their trust in machine learning’s black box
Submitting to the higher power of abstraction can strengthen our insights