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Remember the nitro group? Let us consider even simpler case of carbon monoxide. Almost invariably, the chemical databases represent CO as a charge-separated molecule (a) even though it would be as correct to draw it with triple bond and two lone pairs (b)....
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Like it's acyclic cousin, cyclopropane is a colourless gas with a notable smell and taste that is both inflammable and potentially explosive and typically stored in metal cylinders as a liquid under pressure.Cyclopropane is the simplest possible cyclic hydrocarbon,...

My life as a postdoc is almost up, and so this blog will soon be reaching some sort of conclusion. Still, there’s some time to write a post or two that I’ve been meaning to write for a while.In my field, if you want to make progress, you end up...

Like it's acyclic cousin, cyclopropane is a colourless gas with a notable smell and taste that is both inflammable and potentially explosive and typically stored in metal cylinders as a liquid under pressure.Cyclopropane is the simplest possible cyclic hydrocarbon,...
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Freakonomics, a book cowritten by the U Chicago economist Steve Levitt, is a treatise on the economics of ethics. I am in the school of belief that morality and ethics are separate but not mutually exclusive sets of… er…. lifestyle choices. Ethics,...

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The BBC reports today that malaria has started to evolve resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs that are used as the world’s front-line defense against the most prevalent and deadly form of the disease.Artemesinin emerged from a Chinese herbal...

The BBC reports today that malaria has started to evolve resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs that are used as the world’s front-line defense against the most prevalent and deadly form of the disease.Artemesinin emerged from a Chinese herbal...
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The BBC reports today that malaria has started to evolve resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs that are used as the world’s front-line defense against the most prevalent and deadly form of the disease.Artemesinin emerged from a Chinese herbal...

The BBC reports today that malaria has started to evolve resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs that are used as the world’s front-line defense against the most prevalent and deadly form of the disease.Artemesinin emerged from a Chinese herbal...
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The health benefits of green tea, from alertness-boosting antioxidants to aiding slimming and defying aging, are persistently splashed across the TV and the web. Now, according to a seminal study from German researchers, those wonderful polyphenols could also...
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aromatic amine dye present in most hair dyesadded to henna paste to create "black henna", which is intended to make henna tattoos appear darker in order to create the classic black ink tattoo lookhenna (Lawsonia alba/inermis) is a flowering plant that contains...

Last year, while visiting family in Germany, I decided to pick some walnuts to bring home to Norway. They were not ripe, which was good, because I was planning to make nocino, a walnut liqueur. You can easily find a number of recipes by googling and there is...
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My husband works in what I consider to be the materials side of chemistry (he is currently the only chemist in a group of physicists), so even though I am an organic chemist at heart, I really enjoy reading about new developments in nanotechnology. Yesterday...

Carbon disulfide, or CS2 (or commonly in my lab, “what the hell is that smell”) is a low-boiling organic solvent. Structurally, it looks just like carbon dioxide but with sulfur instead of oxygen. It’s used most often for Friedel-Crafts and...
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