Derek Lowe in his In the Pipeline blog is famed for spotting unusual claims in the literature and subjecting them to analysis. This one is entitled Odd Structures, Subjected to Powerful Computation...
Read ItAccording to Guggemos, Slavicek and Kresin, about 5-6![1]. This is one of those simple ideas, which is probably quite tough to do experimentally. It involved blasting water vapour through a pinhole...
Read ItSometimes you come across a bond in chemistry that just shouts at you. This happened to me in 1989[1] with the molecule shown below. Here is its story and, 26 years later, how I responded. To star...
Read ItLast updated on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 <!-- coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata --> Update, 16th Sep, 2014: Started an writeLatex-document on this topic. Is there an open source p...
Read ItICP–OES is a common technique in analytical chemistry, which is characterized by simplicity, simultaneous multi-elemental determination capability, high sensitivity, linear dynamic range, low detec...
Read ItMichael Dewar[1] famously implicated a so-called π-complex in the benzidine rearrangement, back in the days when quantum mechanical calculations could not yet provide a quantitatively accurate real...
Read ItWhy is this post orphaned from the previous? In order to have the opportunity of noting that treating iodine computationally can be a little different from the procedures used for F, Cl and Br. As ...
Read ItLast week, I posted an article about sigmoid functions and how to use them. Nevertheless, it is hard to guess the parameters for a given problem. So, people use software such as Origin [1] or QtiPl...
Read ItHCN is a weak acid (pKa +9.2, weaker than e.g. HF), although it does have an isomer, isocyanic acid or HNC (pka < +9.2 ?) which is simultaneously stronger and less stable. I conclude my halide a...
Read ItNo doubt answers to the question posed in the previous post are already being obtained by experiment. Just in case that does not emerge in the next day or so, I offer a prediction here. The methodo...
Read ItZeolite-like Arabinose-based Coordination Polymers: Synthesis and Characterization for Heavy-Metal Sequestration Applications Alnald Javier1,2 and Patrick John Y. Lim1 1Department of Chem...
Read It[abstract] ABSTRACT The chemisorption and electrochemical activity of 2,5-dihydroxythiophenol (DHT) and 2-(8-mercaptooctyl)-1,4-benzenediol (DHOT) on well-defined Pd(111) surfaces were stu...
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