Why do organic chemists still place NMR spectra and HPLC chromatograms at the end of the SI instead of right after the procedure? I am old enough to have experienced evenings creatively using the photocopy machine to add spectra at the end of the SI, but I see no reason to continue doing it this way. Isn't it easier for both the author and the reader to show the spectrum right after the procedure? Old habits die hard. If you get that suggestion from a reviewer, you'll know it's me! #chemistry
@michelgravel It would be even nicer if authors would share their NMR and MS data as raw data, or at least something that is not a bunch of pixels. Just throw them on something like #Dataverse where you even get a DOI for your datasets. The reviewers can check your work more easily (or at all in many cases of structure elucidation) and other scientist can build upon your work for real. Some examples of what you can do when data is shared: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/NP/C7NP00064B
@bjonnh @michelgravel I’ve never understood what value synthetic chemistry journals and synthetic chemists feel there is in the 100 page long pdf esi document filled with low-res images of 1h and 13c 1d spectra. We need to be making raw data (nmr, ms, ir, lab book pages) available
