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...
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According 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...
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Sometimes 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...
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Last updated on Tuesday, September 16, 2014
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Update, 16th Sep, 2014: Started an writeLatex-document on this topic.
Is there an open source p...
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ICP–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...
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Michael 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...
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Why 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 ...
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Last 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...
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HCN 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...
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No 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...
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Zeolite-like Arabinose-based Coordination Polymers:
Synthesis and Characterization for Heavy-Metal Sequestration Applications
Alnald
Javier1,2 and Patrick John Y. Lim1
1Department of
Chem...
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[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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