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Control of translational and rotational movement at nanoscale
Stacko, Peter
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“Control of Translational and Rotational Movement at Nanoscale” door
Peter Štacko
1. Negative results and failed attempts should be reported in literature more often since it could often greatly speed up or improve the follow-up research. 2. The fact that previous attempts in the literature to synthesize a compound
failed does not mean you cannot synthesize it following the exact same method (Chapter 3).
3. In academic settings, researchers are overly reliant on column chromatography as a purification method, while often more suitable techniques are available (especially for large quantities).
4. The melting point does not provide any useful information regarding the identity of the compound, especially when taking into account the influence of omnipresent impurities such as water and the existence of polymorphs. 5. It should not be possible to publish a photochemical paper without a single
UV-vis spectrum, especially when a novel photochemical transformation is reported without any prior references to such process.
Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 4822-4825
6. The names of the referees who reviewed a paper should be reported along with the list of the authors.
7. If the experimental details on the synthesis of the only molecule studied are not reported, but referenced to another paper, in which no such molecule is reported, one might wonder what molecule the authors were actually investigating.
8. Drawing conclusions based on the comparison of two numbers within one order of magnitude (for instance half-lives of the metastable states of molecular motors) is meaningless unless you provide some sort of statistical information (i.e. standard error) and understand how these numbers are mathematically produced.
