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More Development Adventures: The Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Reaction
The NHK reaction is nicely described in this Wiki article. Catalytic amounts of nickel were found to be beneficial in this system and Kishi used the reaction extensively during his synthesis of...
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When practical jokes and chemistry don’t mix.
I’m all for making chemistry accessible to all, heck I even write another blog on the subject. So I’m generally pretty pleased to see chemistry in the main stream media and large blogs. But this time...
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Things the BBC need to know about chemistry: The BBC responds.
Remember the BBC’s recent botched attempt to produce an entertaining program about chemistry?It got covered in a variety of chemistry blogs, so I won’t go into details again.I wasn’t satisfied with...
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Chemophobia strikes again
The department I work in is keen to give young people the opportunity to experience life as a chemist. So we offer pupils from local schools work experience placements. But before the pupils come to us...
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The Flagship of Chemistry (Total Organic Synthesis).
In an essay to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Angewandte Chemie our friend and mentor Prof. K. C. Nicolaou had penned an essay for this august event. Which can be seen here.Not to be outdone in...
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Roll-On Hormones, now on ESPN
Here’s something you don’t see every day: new drugs advertised on ESPN. Especially one you apply to your armpits.Actual Axiron logo: Crash-test dummy with rainbow B.O.?Source: Eli LillyEnter Axiron,...
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The Seven (deadly) Sins of Science
Professor W. F. v. Gunsteren has written a very interesting essay for Angewandte entitled “The Seven Sins in Academic Behaviour in the Natural Sciences”. In this piece he defines the seven sins as...
View ArticleEnergy, Heat and Temperature
Energy, in fact, is never lost: a fundamental law of the universe is the conservation of energy, which states that in a system isolated from all other outside factors, the total amount of energy...
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Acid Overview
An acid simply defines as a substance in water solutions dissociate yielding hydrogens ions as only a positive ions. Some acids dissociate in one step yield one hydrogen ion called monobasic acid. Here...
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ChemisTrees
Chemis-Trees have been all the raged on the chemistry Reddit this season. A select few are shown below. If you have one feel free to leave it in the comments and we’ll add it to the list.from The...
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Great Show But Was the Chemistry Quite Right?
A guest blog post by Dr Nigel Young, an inorganic chemist at the University of Hull.I have just watched the first of the 2012 RI Christmas Lectures entitled “Air: The Elixir of Life” by Dr Peter...
View ArticleCalculate the Molecule Mass Relative of the Compound
Molecular mass relative (Mr) calculated from the atomic mass number (Ar) of the elements in the molecule. Ar express the weight of the element relative to 1/12 atomic mass of C-12 isotope. Here is the...
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Molecular Mechanics
Synthesising small molecular machines has been somewhat limited to making molecules that can walk or spin round cogwheels. Mind you that is still pretty impressive. Now things are set to change with a...
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[Guest Post] Best of the Annals of Improbable Research
The following is a guest post by Brandon Findlay, who regularly blogs at ChemTips. We’re glad you could join us, Brandon.—Best of the Annals of Improbable ResearchWell, almost. For some reason my...
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[Guest Post] Best of the Annals of Improbable Research (Part 2)
The following is a guest post by Brandon Findlay, who regularly blogs at ChemTips.—Best of the Annals of Improbable Research (Part 2)It’s time for another best-of from the Annals of Improbable...
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Replicating Rosalind Franklin’s DNA diffraction experiment.
The 60th anniversary of Watson and Crick’s DNA structure paper is fast approaching (25th April). So I’ve been hunting for nice DNA demos. My favourite so far is a replication of Rosalind Franklin and...
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Has Tamiflu got a cold?
Tamiflu, made by Roche and licensed by them from Gilead and stockpiled in many countries has proved to be a big money maker for Roche. It is one of two neuramidase inhibitors currently available for...
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When is a thank you just not enough?
I bet there is an interesting back story to this little episode. In January a neat communication appeared in JACS describing “Small-Molecule Inducer of Beta Cell Proliferation Identified by...
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WWWTP – Chemistry Teacher Recruiters
This advert just popped up whilst I was reading something on the Guardian science pages. I clicked on it and it took me to the UK’s Department of Education who, in conjunction with the Royal Society of...
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2012 Classroom Full of NanoKids: Pt 3: Nanimals and NanoThings
To see more creative NanoKids, click hereFinal installment today: Nanimals and NanoThings. These are all structures drawn by my spring 2012 organic chemistry class. Full background here.(Note: some...
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Stereochemistry Riddle
A molecule with one stereocenter has one pair of stereoisomers: a pair of enantiomers.A molecule with two stereocenters has 6 pairs of stereoisomers: 4 pairs of diastereomers and 2 pairs of...
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When Lab Fights Escalate to Sulfuric Acid + Hammers.
Below is taken from: PhD student attacks another with sulfuric acid and a hammer.———A university student has been refused bail after he allegedly threw acid in the face of a classmate before attacking...
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Macrolactonisation
Macrolactonization: Now here is a word to strike fear into the heart of any synthetic organic chemist. It’s usually the last step, or one of the last steps in a long complicated natural product...
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Chem Coach Carnival
Thanks to See Arr Oh for putting on this blog carnival. Hopefully this can help someone out there Your current job.I teach at a small, liberal arts university in the Midwest (Primarily Undergraduate...
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If Necessity is the mother of Invention, is Invention’s quirky uncle named...
In a previous post, The Life Cycle of a North American Research Project, I described how an unexpected publication came out of what I initially thought was a calculation anomaly. I now have another,...
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