mixed bag

New paper has been first drafted. Heller recently tore it apart (from abroad even!) and sent it back, notifying me that he prefers separated Results and Discussion sections. I personally enjoy discussing my results as they come up, it leads to less confusion for the reader who might not want to read the whole paper (most readers are of this type.) Doesn't matter much, what does is that several of the claims in the paper were found to be untrue while Heller was in Europe. This will result in frantic synthesis of materials and copious amounts of low temperature high field heteronuclear NMR. On the upside is better to have something you thought didn't work turn out to work. Much better than having someone else contradict you in the literature. A good catch, and perhaps another try at a new crystal structure. It seems as though this new product is temperature sensitive, although not terribly so (stable in an ice/water bath.) This could lead to some interesting antics with the crystallographer.