… + 2 H2O, reversibly
I’ve been exploring some recent developments in chemical synthesis and self-assembly that suggest attractive possibilities for engineering robust self-assembling molecular systems. Boronate esters are involved in two ways.
Two days ago, I sat down to write about this, but then I read further into the literature, and learned substantially more. Yesterday, another cycle of the same. There’s entirely too much relevant information and progress. Maybe tomorrow.
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James Hayton 01.24.10 at 6:23 pm UTC
Looking forward to reading about it!
James
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William Dye ("willdye") 01.29.10 at 7:04 pm UTC
No problem. By blog standards, your posts are of remarkably high quality, so it’s no surprise that the frequency is irregular. To explain his long delays in shipping software, game developer Gabe Newell supposedly said: “a product is late for a while, but a product will suck forever”. :)
P.S. Occasional off-topic asides and casual errors are a legitimate part of engineering, so I want to make it clear that I’m not asking for every blog post to be a defensible dissertation.