What are amino acids?
An amino acid is a type of organic acid that contains a carboxyl functional group (-COOH) and an amine functional group (-NH2) as well as a...
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was born on August 26, 1743 in Paris, France. He was a French lawyer, economist and chemist. When Lavoisier was a chemist, the...
July 23rd- Organic chemist Vladimir Prelog was born on this day in 1923
Yugoslavian-Swiss chemist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John W. Cornforth for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Stereochemistry is the study of the...
July 22nd- Ukrainian-American biochemist Selman Waksman was born on this day in 1888
He coined the term ‘antibiotic’ and discovered streptomycin, the first drug that was effective against tuberculosis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
What is supercritical fluid chromatography?
The discovery of supercritical fluids led to novel analytical applications in the fields of chromatography and extraction known as supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and supercritical...
Sodium (Na)
Sodium (Na), chemical element of Group 1 (Ia) of the periodic table (the alkali metal group). Sodium is a very soft, silvery-white metal. Sodium is the most common alkali metal and the sixth...
List of Chemicals used in daily life
There are many chemicals that are most essential in daily life. These chemicals are used either in combined form or as some reagents. More than 1000 of...
The Most Important Chemical Compounds
We are living in a world filled with chemical compounds, some of them being the most important things we use on a regular basis. Here...
