Halides Quotes

#1. From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#2. The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic electrophiles including halides or triflates in the presence of a base provides a powerful and general methodology for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds.

Akira Suzuki

#3. The coupling of aryl halides with copper at very high temperature is called the Ullmann reaction, which is of broad scope and has been used to prepare many symmetrical biaryls. However, when a mixture of two different aryl halides is used, there are three possible biaryl products.

Akira Suzuki

#4. Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

Lewis Carroll

#5. I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

Shane Smith

#6. The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Andy Warhol

#7. No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan

#8. For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

Nancy Gibbs