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Group Meeting on a Global Scale

  American Chemical Society, Boston
            August 22, 2010



            Rich Apodaca
           Metamolecular, LLC




         metamolecular.com
Meet Mark
Meet Mark


#%$*@&
Palladium
reaction!
To the Primary Literature
To the Primary Literature

No idea.
Mark Asks His Research Group
Mark Asks His Research Group
  Weʼre
stumped...
Mark Asks His Chemistry Department
Mark Asks His Chemistry Department

            Give it up.   Didnʼt work for
                            me either.
Email?
Email?

         OMG, Pd probs
           still? LOL
What if Mark Could Ask Every Chemist?
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