Marc-Michael Blum
Biochemist
(Bio)chemist who tries to save the world from the bad guys messing around with chemical and biological weapons.
Chemistry
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New artificial Diels-Alderase. This is great stuff (and they used my enzyme as a template...sniff). http://bit.ly/9imFZQ
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Funny if you write a paper and mainly cite literature from the 50s and 60s or even 40s.
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Does anybody know a paper giving a quantitative nucleophilicity scale for orthophosphate in different protonation states in water?
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Doing laundry for the weekend: black and white for saturday and orange for sunday. You have to enjoy the world cup to the very end...
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Sure that G. Sheldrick just wanted to offer a single citation source for SHELX in Acta A saying "cite this one". Too many papers out there.
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Looking for a journal to publish a short communication on novel degradation pathways for organophosphorus compounds. Suggestions anybody?
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Big changes ahead...
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Will be at the OPCW in The Hague on monday and tuesday next week. Till then...Biergartenwetter in Munich.
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More reaction monitoring by NMR today. (aka "fun in the cellar")
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Very sad about the news that German president Horst Köhler declared to resign from office.
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LC-MS worked out fine in the end. This means NMR day tomorrow.
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When you think all it takes is a trivial LC-MS run, things start to get complicated.
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Starting a new book project on practical neutron protein crystallography together with Paul Langan at Los Alamos (Eds.). Pretty excited!
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Interesting: Structure of human SMP30 http://bit.ly/bKbA4z
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Interesting: Binding of VX to Paraoxonase. A modeling study. http://bit.ly/aJdZTQ
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Reviewing an analytical paper with authors from industry. So different in style from academics. Wonder if this has been looked at in detail.
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Shocked about the news about three German soldiers killed and five wounded in an ambush near Kundus in Afghanistan.
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Experiment have seen collisions!!!!!!!!!!! (at LHC with 7 TeV, via @CERN )
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Recieved my King's. Colle Degree Certificate today for my MA. Date of graduation was 1st Dec 2009. That took a while...
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Our article in Chem. Biol. Interact. now available as "corrected proof" (epub ahead of print). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2010.02.043
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Off to Los Alamos, NM for the rest of the week.
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Proofs for CBI article arrived. Time to get rid of that annoying typo in the title. (that even made it into PubMed)
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Preparing for an LC/MS allnighter tomorrow.
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New article in CBI now online (accepted article): http://bit.ly/a6Ilwk (with typo in the title :-( its a greek beta)
