Molecules: You'd better learn to live with them.
August 30, 2007
Category: Inorganic
Mellitic anhydride is unusual - as mentioned in the argument over urea, it seems like it should be organic - it's a benzene derivative - but there's no hydrogen. This causes it to fail some peoples' tests for whether something's...
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August 28, 2007
Category: Polymers
Formaldehyde's funny stuff. It's naturally a gas. If you put too much of it in solution, it will polymerize and form a polyacetal, "paraformaldehyde," which is just -O-CH2- repeating over and over....
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August 27, 2007
Category: Biology
Ellman reagent can be used to quantitate the amount of free thiol present in a protein or other molecule:...
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August 24, 2007
Category: Perfumey
Previously, I covered ethyl thiolactate, which is one of those oddly sweet smelling thiols (like grapefruit mercaptan). Ethyl lactate also smells nice....
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Category: Perfumey
Previously, I covered ethyl thiolactate, which is one of those oddly sweet smelling thiols (like grapefruit mercaptan). Ethyl lactate also smells nice....
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August 23, 2007
Category: Stinky
Hydrazine, H2N-NH2 is the nitrogen analogue of hydrogen peroxide:...
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August 22, 2007
Category: Synthesis
This reagent is one of my favorite ones for replacing an alcohol with an iodine....
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August 20, 2007
Category: Drugs
I have alluded multiple times (see here and here) to the ubiquity of benzodiazepines in modern medicine. Xanax is one very popular one:...
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August 17, 2007
Category: Drugs
AM404 is an active metabolite of acetaminophen:...
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August 16, 2007
Category: Drugs
Carfentanil is an absurdly strong opiate - ca 10^4 times stronger than morphine....
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