User:OMCV

About me

My PhD is in

Interest in Wikipedia

I was skeptical of Wikipedia's utility to chemists until I noticed a number of well written and accurate entries on industrially practiced chemistry and obscure but useful topics such as the Benzoin condensation. Being able to find concise summaries of information just outside my specialization is priceless. In return I thought I might fill some holes in my specialization. Many of my pages are on subjects I once searched for and was disappointed not to find. I've started or significantly contributed to the pages which follow.

More recently I've taken an interest in documenting historic climbing routes. Hopefully I will also have an opportunity to clean up some of the general climbing articles.

Contributions

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Chemistry

Proton coupled electron transfer, Reference electrode, Rotating disk electrode, Rotating ring-disk electrode, Schlenk flask, Shilov system, Steric effects, Transition metal hydride, Ultramicroelectrode, Voltammetry

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Climbing

Traveler Buttress (Lover's Leap)

Template:Infobox climbing route

Research and Citation

I've never enjoyed citing material and I was always annoyed that I didn't have a good method to collect and search the PDFs I use in research. Zotero solved both those problems. Zotero will still need some improvement before I would use it for a review article but for everything else its the best reference software out there. In my two most recent papers I've used either the current version of EndNote X2 or the current version of Zotero 1.5-2.0 and Zotero was the superior product hands down. Zotero is also convenient for citing material on Wikipedia and I recommend it to all editors regardless of subject matter.