To “close” the story on my previous posts (here and here), this post at the Chemistry blog brings a kind of “closure” though some more details will no doubt surface.
Prof Dorta has apparently responded recognising that his “just make up an elemental analysis..” comment was “inappropriate”. The Editor of Organometallics has also made a lengthy response – quite unusual for an Editor to be so forthcoming and to “step-up”:
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Best wishes,
John Gladysz
(on whose desk “the buck stops” for everything, good and bad, at Organometallics)
He also leaves a comment at ChemBark (which itself is worthy of note as an interaction between the Editor of a Peer-reviewed Journal and a blog)
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Thus, with respect to the Dorta manuscript and Drinkel thesis, we will be focusing (apart from many other questions) on whether the reported procedures give solvated or unsolvated products (it cannot be both), and then whether the yields given are correct (we have done the calculations both ways, and also looked at the NMR spectra per the group handout).
Quite possibly there has been carelessness and there are clearly some mistakes, but – hopefully – not much in the way of “underhand behaviour” or misconduct.
The full responses from Prof. Dorta and John Gladysz are over at the Chemistry blog.
Tags: Dorta-Brinkel paper, Emma Drinkel, John Gladysz, Organometallics, Reto Dorta
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