Aminopyralid (You got herbicide in my fertilizer!)
Category: Food
In the news this week: aminopyralid:...
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June 30, 2008
June 25, 2008
Acetaldehyde (The gross center of the alcohol metabolism chocolate)
Category: Poisons
Acetaldehyde is an intermediate metabolite of alcohol:...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 10:57 PM • 6 Comments •
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....
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 10:09 PM • 3 Comments •
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...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 9:57 PM • 1 Comments •
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....
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 10:39 PM • 3 Comments •
June 2, 2008
Chirality Matters...
Category: Not Really a Molecule
Even in the case of floating severed feet, apparently!...
Posted by Molecule of the Day at 2:22 AM • 5 Comments •
