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Matthias de L'Obel (1538-1616) was a French physician and botanist. He devised and published a system of plant classification, and served as the personal physician to William the Silent and James I. The plant genus Lobelia is named for him.A number of Lobelia...

Matthias de L'Obel (1538-1616) was a French physician and botanist. He devised and published a system of plant classification, and served as the personal physician to William the Silent and James I. The plant genus Lobelia is named for him.A number of Lobelia...

As some of you might remember, towards the end of last year DrFreddy over at Synthetic Remarks offered out his services as a guest bloggerto anyone interested, purely for the fun of bloggingsomewhere new for a change. I took him up on his kind offer, and this...
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Heres a tricky (trick?) question from the final exam of MITx course Introduction to Solid State Chemistry: Which compound has the higher boiling point, phosphorus trifluoride (PF3) or phosphorus pentafluoride (PF5)? Naturally, you are supposed to figure this...
bismuth trifluoride
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Heres a tricky (trick?) question from the final exam of MITx course Introduction to Solid State Chemistry: Which compound has the higher boiling point, phosphorus trifluoride (PF3) or phosphorus pentafluoride (PF5)? Naturally, you are supposed to figure this...
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Heres a tricky (trick?) question from the final exam of MITx course Introduction to Solid State Chemistry: Which compound has the higher boiling point, phosphorus trifluoride (PF3) or phosphorus pentafluoride (PF5)? Naturally, you are supposed to figure this...
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Tables set and decorated for the best lunch at a scientific conference ever!I mentioned in my blog post on The Emerging Science of Gastrophysics symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen that we were treated with what...
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Most winters Punxatawney Phil is the furry face of Pennsylvania, but this year, he's got competition: meet the purple squirrel of Jersey Shore (which should not be confused with either a television show or a town in New Jersey). The news report offers a number...
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DMF (5.0 mL) was stirred under a nitrogen atmosphere in an ice-bath. Phosphoryl chloride (1.18 mL, 12.7 mmol, 1.2 equiv.) was added and the reaction stirred for 25 minutes. A solution of pyrrole PMY 1-6 (2.00 g, 10.5 mmol, 1 equiv.) in DMF (5 mL) was added...
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DMF (5.0 mL) was stirred under a nitrogen atmosphere in an ice-bath. Phosphoryl chloride (1.18 mL, 12.7 mmol, 1.2 equiv.) was added and the reaction stirred for 25 minutes. A solution of pyrrole PMY 1-6 (2.00 g, 10.5 mmol, 1 equiv.) in DMF (5 mL) was added...
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Grasping the abstract models chemists use to understand what holds a molecule together its bonding is one of the major goals of the general chemistry course I am teaching this semester. Understanding the bonding in a molecule is the key to...

I was away at a conference last week. One of those great small conferences where you can spend a lot of time interacting with people outside of the talks. It was great. I'm convinced the best science is discussed over beer and wine. I titled this blog post...
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ATC Code: N03AX22Wikipedia: Perampanel On October 22nd 2012 the FDA approved Perampanel (research code: E2007, ER-155055-90, trade name Fycompa, CHEMBL1214124). Perampanel is an orally administered drug to be used as an adjunctive therapy for the treatment...