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    Synthesizing Diphenyl Oxalate: Esterification of Phenol and Oxalic Acid

    I admit that I had no idea oxalyl chloride was so toxic, I had intended to go through the MSDS of each chemical after the dealer told me that the chemicals were available, but I ended up downloading the MSDS of each one just after reading this comment! But the dealers here are ridiculous, he has...
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    WOW! Academics is turning out to be much more rougher than I had originally anticipated! UPDATE:- So I met the professor, this was a man whom I have already met twice before. The first time I had met him among other things we talked about, I explained to him the cauchy riemann equations, this...
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    I wouldn't call it that even if I manage to publish it. It's just a problem, I tried to solve it and one of my attempts was clever enough to get through it. Just because it's been open for more than a hundred years does not mean many people have heard about it (right?), I'll bet no one who read...
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    If there has been any misunderstanding on my part, then I am very, very, VERY sorry Russ.
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    Synthesizing Diphenyl Oxalate: Esterification of Phenol and Oxalic Acid

    UPDATE:- I was talking with a lot of chemical dealers today. One was promising (I still had to spell out oxalyl chloride for him though), he said he'll tell me tomorrow if he could get me the chemicals. (hope for the best.) Do you think sodium fluorescein (is usually used in highlighters I...
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    Please, I seek your advice on the matter, not your opinion of my knowledge and expertise or my paper which is obviously wrong given that you do not know me. But assuming beforehand that I am one of those stupid kids who thinks he is on the forefront of math after reading some fancy novel is...
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    Synthesizing Diphenyl Oxalate: Esterification of Phenol and Oxalic Acid

    Yes, I found basically the same thing (the trichlorophenol variant though) here only in much better video form. It seems he also has a video where he prepares the TCPO. (he too uses toulene). Also I've been going through some books. (Including Morrison and Boyd.) I found some standard...
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    Thank you for all your help so far! In which case I'll be looking forward to that meeting. P.S. what do you mean "argument is impenetrable"? Any help is always appreciated!
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    It doesn't really have to be an important mathematician or a mathematician at all. Once the proof is given he/she could easily try to publish it under their name in some other journal.
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    Do you think mathwonk might be interested in this. (after all he seems to be the only regularly posting mathematician left on PF, hurkyl's been inactive for over a year now and matt grime even more than that.) Meanwhile there's an update guys. I just found out that my father has a friend who...
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    I suspected something similar given that I got the rejectance letter 10 days later. (which is I believe short even for a short paper.)
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    The only way I can convince you people that the paper does not have elementary mistakes is that you go through it. I would happily upload it here only I'm concerned that there is a possibility that someone might steal it?
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    Laughs. I knew you would reply something like that. 8 separate cases, I don't think I've seen that before, besides it's the classification scheme that really matters. Yep, long time ago.
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    What does "not suitable" mean? [for a mathematics journal]

    I do not have access to the journal therefore I am not a regular reader, but the Annals are famous for publishing stuff related to number theory. I can give no better example than that of Andrew Wiles paper on Fermat's Last Theorem (which is a diophantine equation.) Yes. (From the beginning.)...
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    Synthesizing Diphenyl Oxalate: Esterification of Phenol and Oxalic Acid

    Thanks for the link, but unfortunately I've just checked at the local library and they don't have Beilstein. Still I'll keep searching in other libraries, in the meanwhile do you have any other references which might have the reaction.
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