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June 30, 2008

Aminopyralid (You got herbicide in my fertilizer!)

Category: Food

In the news this week: aminopyralid:...

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June 25, 2008

Acetaldehyde (The gross center of the alcohol metabolism chocolate)

Category: Poisons

Acetaldehyde is an intermediate metabolite of alcohol:...

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June 24, 2008

Ornithine (O RLY?)

Category: Biology

Ornithine is an amino acid that occurs naturally in the body, but mostly as an intermediate in your body's nitrogen disposal cycle....

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June 18, 2008

Propidium Iodide (A rare derivative)

Category: DNA

Chemistry spans orders of magnitude in terms of polarity. Many of the organic guys who read this work on stuff that never would dissolve in water (which becomes something of a pain when you try and make that something into...

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June 16, 2008

Tetrazole (Weird acids)

Category: Synthesis

That was probably the longest break ever. I'm trying to do better, but writing up multiple papers and grant applications, along with a pretty intense summer travel schedule just haven't augured well for the blogging. Onward and upward: tetrazole....

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June 2, 2008

Chirality Matters...

Category: Not Really a Molecule

Even in the case of floating severed feet, apparently!...

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