... a scientific scandal, involving a woman who received a chemistry Ph.D. at august Columbia University, and was a candidate for a Ph.D. in molecular biology at Heidelberg University in Germany, only recently came to my attention. Here's a photo of the Columbia Quad. The story is so fascinating that even the date of the investigative documents involved (2010) can't keep me from going over the ground here. Here's a link, for those who want to go further into the matter than I plan to go here: https://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8932sci1.html . Because federal grant money was involved, the HHS Department's Office of Research Integrity did a thorough review of the matter. The culprit, Bengu Sezen, claimed to have developed a way of selectively activating C-H bonds. Think of the words "hydrocarbon" and "carbohydrates" and you have two good reasons for caring about the C-H bonds. The selective activation of C-H bonds continues to be an activ...
