The dark side of dichloromethane – DCM
Dichloromethane (DCM) is a fantastically useful solvent. It can dissolve a huge variety of compounds;whisk them through chromatography columns; and then Rotovap away in a...
Zeolite catalysts convert carbon dioxide to fuel
Two research groups have independently developed catalysts that turn CO2 and hydrogen into gasoline. The conversion of carbon dioxide to long-chain hydrocarbons is potentially crucial to...
July 24th – Sir William Abney
Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney was born on this day in 1843. English astronomer and chemist who investigated colour photography and colour vision. He pioneered...
What Is Galvanic Corrosion? How Can It Be Avoided?
Over 200 years ago, the British naval frigate Alarm lost its copper sheeting due to the rapid corrosion of the iron nails used to fasten the copper...
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...
