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AT a meeting of the London and South Eastern Counties Section of the Institute of Chemistry on April 21, Dr. E. R. H. Jones, of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, gave a lecture on “Recent Advances in Organic Chemical Methods”. He said that spectacular advances which have characterized contemporary organic chemistry are largely to be attributed to vast improvements in the technique of the isolation, purification, examination and synthesis of organic compounds, and both new and improved physical and chemical methods have been extensively utilized. It is ever the aim of the organic chemist to employ methods involving the mildest possible conditions and the minimum quantity of material, a trend determined principally by his growing preoccupation with labile compounds of biological importance.
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RECENT ADVANCES IN ORGANIC CHEMICAL METHODS. Nature 151, 564–565 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151564a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151564a0