December 2008 : Molecule of the Day

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December 15, 2008

Methyl Anthranilate (Mm, grapey aniline)

Category: Food

Methyl anthanilate occurs naturally in grapes, along with a suite of other aroma compounds, which combine to give that complex, earthy, bright grape juice aroma....

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December 4, 2008

Acetonitrile (Did the housing bubble screw up your HPLC?)

Category: Chromatography

Acetonitrile is essential to a lot of chemical analysis - HPLC, or high-performance liquid chromatography, is a workhorse technique for just about anyone who wants to purify on a smallish scale, or see how pure their stuff is. This means...

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December 3, 2008

Levamisole (That's not cocaine)

Category: Drugs

Levamisole is one of those drugs that was discovered quite awhile ago, when we had even less idea what target things were hitting. It's not used often in people these days. What's interesting about it is that it is occasionally...

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