July 27th
Bertram Borden Boltwood was born on this day in 1870. He was an American chemist and physicist whose studied the radioactivity of uranium and thorium, and their...
Octane quality in Gasoline
The most important quality parameter for gasoline is the octane quality. Octane number is a measure of the antiknock properties of the fuel. Knocking in...
Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists 2018
ChemCYS' 14th edition will take place from 21 to 23 February 2018 in Blankenberge (Belgium). Scientific Topics Analytical Chemistry ...
July 26th
Paul Walden was born on this day in 1863. Latvian chemist who, while teaching at Riga, discovered the Walden inversion, a reversal of stereochemical configuration that...
What Is Hydronium?
Hydronium is what you get when you put water and hydrogen ions together, forming H3O+. Hydronium is the simplest form of oxonium, which is any ion...
July 25th – Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev
Russian chemist Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev was born on this day in 1874. He developed a method for industrial production of synthetic rubber. In 1910, while researching processes...
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...