Chemical Reaction of the Day

          Short blocks of chemistry facts

Thursday, January 17, 2013

1/17/2013 - McMurry Coupling

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Hello Chemists, I'm sorry that I have been absent for so long on this blog.  This last term posed more difficult than initially antici...
Monday, September 24, 2012

9/24/2012 - Amygdalin

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I thought I would have had time to post some reactions but being back at school, combined with my handicap only leaves me exhausted, tired, ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Starting a New Semester

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I'm starting my last semester (the semester that should have been last year but unfortunately some idiot drove his mini van into me) tom...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

9/2/2012 - Cleaning Glue Goop

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Recently I decided to take off a sticker that I applied to my laptop a while ago, but unfortunately it left a pretty icky residue that I cou...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

8/27/2012 - Chocolate's Caffiene

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The cacao plant has many alkaloids within it's beans, but the most prominent regarding their affects on human physiology is the molecul...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Congratulations NASA

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You continue to make great steps in the name of science. Here is the first image broadcasted by Curiosity:
Monday, July 23, 2012

7/22/2012: Bleach

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Now everyone is familiar or should be familiar (for those who don't clean) with bleach. Bleach is a chemical known for its cleaning capa...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

07/12/2012 - Organolithium Ether Cleavage

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There comes a point in a compound's life when there is a question of whether there is an easier way to make it, and in 1930 Karl Ziegler...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

7/11/2012 - Generation of Alkyl Radicals

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The next year in 1929 one of the pioneers of radio chemistry,  Friedrich Adolf Paneth , an Austrian scientist who did the majority of his ea...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

7/10/2012 - Beginnings of Carbonyl Chemistry

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In 1928 a chemist by the name of Walter Heiber , also known as the father of carbonyl chemistry, started a systematic study of many metal ca...
Monday, July 9, 2012

7/9/2012 - Synthesis of Tetraethyllead Pt. II

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In the year of 1922 two chemists working with General Motors Corportation  Thomas Midgley and T.A. Boyd discovered an additive to gasoline ...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

7/8/2012 - Synthesis of Polyphenylchromium Compounds

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The past couple of days I have been recovering from my dentist reaching into my mouth and stealing my precious wisdom teeth, and dealing wit...
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