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Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds.
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Hello,
I have the feeling that everything in chemistry related to information and data in particular is very sharded and obscured. Are there any projects ensuring more transparency and openess of the data? I am getting quite lost to be honest and would wish for more standards and unity in the field.
Thanks,
Julian
Greetings.
During experiments and reading about MOFs, I found something that is strange to me.
For instance, in MIL-100/101, the secondary building units (SBUs) are [M3(μ3-O)(O2CR)6L3]n+/m−, while some reports claim that their as-synthesized MOFs are constructed by [M3(μ3-OH)(O2CR)6L3]n+/m−.
Both of these SBUs are 6-connected, topologically they are the same. But from the aspect of chemistry, O-center or OH-center makes a lot differences especially in the valances of related metal ions (for instance, Co2+ or Co3+, Fe2+ or Fe3+, etc.) and in the counter ions in pores/L sites (like dimethylammonium ions, coordinated fluoride ions).
I am wondering, is there any way that we could determine the actual form of this 'center' ?
Hello fellow chromatography experts. This is a subject for a fruitful discussion that everyone can benefit from. To make it helpful, I appreciate that you provide a reference to support your preference.
The topic is: When to use Linear fit for the calibration curve, and when to use a Quadratic fit? Is it analyte-dependable, which means the quadratic fit is reserved for a group of analytes sharing a specific chemistry for instance? Or is it a technique-dependable, which means if the technique is Gas Chromatography then a linear fit should be used, and so on? Or is it a column-dependable, you know the drill!
The second part of this discussion should be about the proper weighing power when making the fit. Again, is the weighing power is dependable on any factor I mentioned earlier or did not mention at all, or is it just a user preference?
Let me add to these two topics another one. If you calibrate your instrument with a five-point calibration curve, and after a number of injections you decide to inject a control sample to check your instrument's response. What percent deviation from the initial calibration you would accept before recalibrating?
Let's discuss these topics and make our discussion a good reference for beginners in the chromatography field.
according to you what are Hot problems currentlyworld is facing? And what solutions you would suggest to solve them?
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Hey scientists,
I am just wondering what functional groups can be added to a hydrophobic molecule to make it water soluble at basic pH?
As a case study, let's just consider ethyl benzene as the scaffold. Not very soluble in water.
How can we make it soluble at basic pH? But extending functional groups to the carbon chain.
I know for instance, that you can have ethyl benzene. It can be made soluble at acidic pH by adding an ammonium chloride group. If you could convert ethyl benzene to phenethylamine by adding an amino group to the carbon chain then you got ethyl benzene. Still not very soluble. But if you react phenethylamine with HCl then you group phenethylamine-HCl or phenethylammonium chloride which is very water soluble at pH less than or equal to 7.
If you had ethyl benzene, what functional group could you add to make it soluble at basic pH?
I think that if ethyl benzene if we added a COOH group to the carbon chain we would have 3-Phenylpropanoic acid . If we reacted NaOH with that we would have 3-Phenylpropanoate Sodium Salt which I predict would be soluble at basic pH.
Is that correct? What other functional groups could I add to ethyl benzene's carbon chain to make the molecule water soluble at basic pH. Are there any functional groups that I could add to the carbon chain of ethylamine to make the molecule water soluble at basic pH and also positively charged? Like for example phenethylamine-HCl is positively charged but only soluble at acidic pH.

In experimental, the bond energy per atom rises quadratically with the number of bonds then why in simulations this bond energy per atom rises linearly with the number of bonds per atoms?
dear friends, what is the most suitable iron complex to work with photo-Fenton without needing to stabilize the pH between 2.5 and 3?
I would like to work with the reaction at a pH between 4.5 and 6, would it be possible using some iron complex? like for example ferrioxalate?
Could anyone suggest me some good papers which involves the coating or mixing of MXenes with conductive polymers such as PEDOT or PANI or any other conductive polymer for that matter.
Suppose you have a mixture mostly comprised of saturated fatty acids of carbon chain length C10-C20. Is there a process to convert them to unsaturated fatty acids?
The opposite process is well known. Margarine is produced via hydrogenation of unsaturated fatty acids to obtain saturated fatty acids. Is there something like a dehydrogenation process for saturated fatty acids?
If this process is feasible, could it be done in a targeted manner to yield mostly Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids?
Hi Research Gate,
A little background first: I'm a physicist, and I've done most of my work studying how chemical reactions move when they're pushed around by fluid flows. The trouble with this is I'm very limited because I don't know a lot of chemistry. I understand chemistry when I see it, but need to have a reaction identified before I can start trying to understand it. What this means is I have done most of my research on a single chemical reaction (The Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction). The interesting phenomena around the BZ reaction, weren't my focus though, it just happened to be a reaction I knew how to make and that I could easily watch with a camera. However, I now want to go a little deeper into what's happening and the complex chemistry of BZ just gets in the way of understanding.
So I am asking you all if anyone has a suggestion for some interesting chemical reactions. For now I'm especially looking for reactions that 1) occur in the aqueous or liquid phase (so they can flow but are easy to contain) 2) Will sit inert until activated (now ideally I'd like the reaction to be completely mixed but need a catalyst to start an autocatalytic reaction, but I'd also take reactions where nothing happens until the second ingredient is added).
I'm also especially interested in reactions where it's easy to visually tell one state of reaction from another (say using an indicator dye). It would also be good if I could make the reaction from pretty standard chemistry supplies. Lastly I'd of course like reactions with practical import, say if the reaction makes something useful.
I know it's quite a list of things, but I'm hoping some helpful chemists (or even high school chemistry teachers really. As I said I'm not an expert on chemistry), are willing to pitch some suggestions.
If it's a reaction you study but don't want to deal with fluid dynamics on, great! I'm plenty willing to talk about what I'm trying to do.
~Thanks for reading, and hope you can help!
Thomas
I am following this recipe for PBABr synthesis. I added HBr (48 wt % in H2O) to Methanol and PBA solution at 0 degrees celsius. But after 2 hours of stirring I am not able to see precipitates. I have to evaporate the solution at 50 degrees celsius to obtain precpitates, I did that and still did not see any precipitates. Please help me with this. Thanks in advance!
Not another chemistry Nobel going to biologists!’ How many times have you heard that complaint? But is there really anything in it?
It’s sometimes said that the number of chemistry prizes awarded to work rooted in the life sciences – at least nine of the prizes since 2000 – simply shows how broad chemistry is: at the molecular scale, biology is chemistry. But does that argument stack up? A historian of chemistry and a mathematical chemist argue in a new paper that, not only have the chemistry Nobels indeed become more biological in recent decades but also the prizes of that nature tend to reward work outside of the chemical mainstream, being much more closely tied to research in the life sciences itself. In effect, they say, the chemistry Nobels are being shared out between genuinely different disciplines.


I would like to know the different deposition techniques and the respective conditions and constraints to deposit or coat a layer of MXene (Ti3C2Tx) onto a TCO glass substrate.
I got a silicone substrate and I coat it with a conductive polymer.
But the conductive polymer doenst adhere very well, I did a crosscut test and the conductive polymer fully detached.
Which possibilities do I got to improve the adhesion?
Thank you.
Hello Good day i am a undergraduate student, please help me to have a topoc of my research proposal about organic chemisty. Thank you so much.
I've already checked solubility of sodium chloride (NaCl) in water(20℃).
According to the solubility data, 359 grams of sodium chloride should be dissolved in 1 L water.
so I put 245.2 grams of sodium chloride into 1 L water and let the mixture into the ultrasonic cleanser and shaking plate for minutes, but It doesn't dissolve well. I can even see that the powder is deposited.
I want to make a sodium chloride solution with a concentration of 245.3g/L.
Can you tell me what the problem is?
They've invited me to publish and to become a reviewer/editor.
I'm an intern in a big company which makes flexible polyurehane foam for the automotive sector and I'm working on sound absorption properties of PU foam. I'm not chemist so I'm trying to improve these properties only by modifying process parameters.
ANSYS or ABAQUS donot correlate materials chemistry wirh the observed or simulated mechanical properties. Is there a software that can do this structure to property correlation. ?
I'm working on counter electrode for DSSC application, i would like to know if the CoSe can be doped with a MXene like Ti3C2Tx.
Hi, everyone.
Our lab is going to use ISO 12966-2 and 12966-4 and there is one moment in sample preparation (rapid transmethylation method under alkali-catalysed conditions) that I can't understand. It is about the addition of saturated sodium chloride solution after transmethylation reaction. Maybe I'm not so good in chemistry to understand the purpose of this action. So, can anyone please help me to get it?
Considering the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that requires remote teaching activities. In the case of Chemical Education, which requires a high degree of abstraction and the use of visualizations can effectively contribute to the student's learning process, how does the teacher deal with the relationship of macro, micro and symbolic representations, in online teaching?
Is is possible to find out if a material can function as a cathode or anode by just looking at cyclic voltammetry.
For our research subject in high school, we are required to conduct a research that can be done at the safety of our homes. Does anyone have any suggestions on what kind of topics we can research on? Thank you!
Dear Chromatographers,
This method was developed on LC MS/MS. The quantifier for both analyte and internal standard have same product ion, will that have an impact on overall analysis. Any supporting article to read more about this would be very helpful.
Thanks
I got the idea from using filters and other filtration systems in previous research experiences, and also how recently... someone gave me a bunch of Monster Energy drinks but they aren't sugar free so it got me thinking how it would be possible to extract the sugar from the Energy Drinks mechanically.
Sugar molecules are 1nm in size
salt (NaCl) is .06nm in size and water molecules are .275nm in size.
Would this work as planned or is there something my reasoning has a huge gap in? :)
Practical assessment method in chemistry Lab
Hello,
Cetyl alcohol is soluble in solvents like acetone and alcohols but not water. Cetyl alcohol is a waxy substance at room temp with a melting temp at around 50 dC.
If I want to dissolve cetyl alcohol in a solvent at room temp, will it dissolve? Or do I need to heat the mixture to CA melting temp?
Originally, I was thinking I would have to heat it. But then I thought there are substances that are solid at room temp but still have the ability to dissolve at room temp...
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Lara.
Hello everyone.
I am working on urease producing bacteria, and often encounter the problem of increased and decreased pH values. Can anybody suggest me a natural or more environment friendly procedure to change the pH of soils if required. Conventional methods include adding acids and bases..i need to know if there are better methods since i am from an engineering field.
Your help would be highly appreciated...
Thanks and regards
Wani
I bought G4 PAMAM dendrimer from a company but they aggregated. The size of them changed from 5nm to 100nm and I cannot work with them because the NH2 functional groups of dendrimers are not available for a chemical reaction. Please guide me, how can I separate PAMAM dendrimers? Is there any pretreatment?
Indeed, I have observed that there is some scientific journals that listed in Scopus sources of not good quality from scientific point of view. At the same time some Universities are depending on Scoups in a similar manner to that of Thomson & Routers or Clarivate analytics.
I am writing my thesis about metabolomics, and after reading about metabolites and proteins and how these have been measured through time for characterization and kinetics, I think metabolomics could be the one analytical technique that enables universal measurement of all intracellular, and possibly extracellular molecules. Even proteins with intact protein mode, for example. Maybe I'm too naive and inexperienced, and saving for some differences to enable separation (column chemistry), and ionization (ESI v APCI v direct injection), what are your thoughts on this statement?
kindly give the software details and download link
As a requirment in my project, I have to synthesize Formamidinium bromide (FABr). According to the protocols which are mentioned in the articles, I've synthesized this material but I think there is an error in my work?
Does anyone has the experience of this synthesis?
Because in the articles, the authors don't express all the steps, I want to know if there is any critical strategy during the synthesis of FABr and specially in the purification stage of this process.
I would appreciate if you point out a reliable article which has mentioned all the stages of this synthesis with it's details.
Hello,
I need to impregnate the pores of a MOF with cu(acac)2, which I will then reduce under vacuum to copper nanoparticles. I plan on using the incipient wetness approach to do so. However, my MOF will not be in a powder form, but rather a self supported, fibrous mat form ( ). According to my current research, the solid support catalyst (MOF) is typically stirred as the metal precursor solution in chloroform (or other solvent) is added to it, yielding a paste. However, I cannot stir my fibrous mat. Will simple immersion of my mat in the metal precursor solution be sufficient to impregnate the pores of the MOF with the precursor? Or would a drop-wise method of adding my solution work without stirring the MOF? Is there another way around this issue?
Thank you for any answers!
Does anyone know of, or use, commercially produced surfaces for contact measurements (control material)? As an example, is there a producer of PTFE discs with highly controlled surface roughness and chemistry that I can purchase? I have not found any....
I am wondering why some stains do not work by themselves and absolutely need to be paired with a counterstain to work. What is the chemistry behind this process? Is there a nice book that explains this process in depth?
Thank you very much for your answer in advance.
I come across many reactions like A + B --> products.
How to consider "products" as a species and solve the kinetics in simulation/modelling, as such the reaction is unbalanced by logic of chemistry.
Dear Scholars
I was wondering if anyone can recommend a publication on crude oil chemistry - particularly on SARA (Saturates, Aromatics, Resins, and Asphaltenes) classifications.
Thanks.
So I have some pH = {4, 7, 10} standard buffer solutions from Fisher Scientific. But they must have went bad or I must have contaminated them because when I try to calibrate my pH meter to 4 using the pH 4 standard buffer solution, it calibrates the pH meter to 2 which obviously isn't right because it should be 4 so I can't trust the standard buffer solutions!!!
I need to do some experiments which require that I accurately calibrate the pH meter which means I can't titrate the standard buffers with HCl or NaOH. I have to know the exact quantities. Might seem a little over-the-top, but I want to be really certain about the math.
I intend to prepare my own calibration standards using exact quantities of chemicals. Total concentration should be 0.1 M, volume needs to be 100 mL. I think 0.1 M is a good choice because that should have low ionic strength and not much crazy debye-huckel variations in pH.
I am pretty certain that I know how to prepare a pH = 4 standard buffer solution using acetic acid and sodium acetate. But I am not quite sure how to prepare a pH 7 standard.
First of all, is this exactly how I should prepare a 0.1 M acetate buffer in 100 mL?
According to pubchem the pKa of acetic acid is 4.76. I have a chem textbook which tells me that the pKa is 4.74. Not much difference so I will assume pubchem is right.
HA + H2O --> A- + H3O+
Acetic Acid + H2O --> Acetate + H3O+
Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation: pH = pKa + log([A-] / [HA])
pH = pKa + log([Acetate] / [Acetic Acid])
= 4.76 + log([Acetate] / [Acetic Acid])
For the total concentration:
[Acetic Acid] + [Acetate] = 0.1 M
The simultaneous solution to these equations is about:
[Acetic Acid] = 0.0852 M
[Acetate] = 0.0148 M
pH = 4.76 + log(0.0148 / 0.0852) = 3.9998 etc ... Pretty much exactly 4!
I have glacial acetic acid and sodium acetate.
Glacial Acetic acid is a pure liquid so its concentration is its density / (Formula Weight)
[Glacial Acetic Acid] = [(1.05 g/mL) / (60.05 g/mole)] * (1000 mL / 1 L) = 17.5 M
Basic Dilution Equation:
Initial Volume = (0.0852 M / 17.5 M) * 100 mL = 0.487 mL glacial acetic acid in 100 mL total volume.
Sodium Acetate --> Na+ (aq) + Acetate- (aq)
grams sodium acetate = (0.0148 moles sodium acetate / L) * (82.03 grams sodium acetate / 1 mole sodium acetate) * (1L / 1000 mL) * 100 mL = 0.121 grams sodium acetate
So I can exactly prepare a pH = 4 is 0.1 M acetate solution by adding 487 microliters of glacial acetic acid & 0.121 grams sodium acetate to 100 mL volumetric flask, and bring the volume up to 100 mL with ultrapure deionized water? Swirl to mix.
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I am confused about how to prepare an exactly pH = 7 phosphate buffer solution.
I know the step wise dissociation of Phosphoric Acid. But the problem is that I am not certain about the second dissociation constant.
H3PO4 --> H2PO4- (aq) + H+ (aq)
H2PO4- (aq) --> HPO42- (aq) + H+ (aq)
If I know the second dissociation constant of phosphoric acid I could figure out exactly how to make a pH = 7 standard 0.1 M phosphate buffer solution using phosphate salts.
My undergrad general chem text book is telling me the second Ka is 6.2 * 10^(-8) or the pKa is 7.208 and pubchem is telling me the second the second pKa is 7.09.
Thus I could use the Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation again with the total concentration to figure out the exact quantities. But I am not certain about what the second pKa of phosphoric acid is! Are undergrad chem textbooks just wrong? That's too much of a margin of error.
pH = pKa + log[(K2HPO4) / (KH2PO4)]
Also I was wondering if a 0.1 M solution of NaCl would have a pH of EXACTLY 7? Would it be more or less accurate than making the phosphate buffer?
NaCl is formed by the titration of a strong acid HCl with a strong base NaOH. Therefore the equivalence point of the titration of a strong acid and strong base should yield a pH 7 of neutrality forming NaCl.
So if I dissolved NaCl in water to yield a 0.1 M concentration would the pH be just as good as making that phosphate buffer solution?
I also need to figure out how to make a pH = 10 standard buffer solution.
Any advice? Can you make my life easier?
Thanks so much!
#COVID-19
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I have extracted Manganese dioxide from zinc-carbon battery in order to prepare Manganese fertilizer . but it never dissolve , Why ??
I recently read:
"The perovskite solution for the solvent quenching method (MAPI) recipe was prepared by dissolving 553.2 mg PbI2 and and 181.23 mg MAI in 1 ml anhydrous DMF/DMSO (4:1, v:v) to obtain a 1:0.95 molar ratio solution (PbI2:MAI) with a concentration of 42.96 wt %."
How can one get 553.2 mg of PbI2 and 181.23 of MAI (CH3NH3I) to be dissolved in 1 ml solution to obtain a 1:0.95 molar ration solution when the molar mass for PbI2 and MAI are 461.01 g/mol and 158.97 g/mol respectively.
I am confused. Thanks for the help in advance.
Some studies reveal that SARS-CoV-2 virus activity can be mitigated at the alkaline pH medium (above pH= 7.5). Any explanation about the mechanism or the Chemistry behind this phenomenon.
Cheers Everyone.
I was seeing some uses of ionic exchange to recover NH4 by ionic exchange with other cations in a specific matrix. And it brought me to question what drives an ionic exchange to be better towards an ion in solution and not so good to another?
I thought maybe the charge of the cation would influence but maybe is not so relevant as here K and Ca are ahead of Na and Mg. Maybe the hydration radius as an important role in it instead? And can pH of the solution where ionic exchange is done affect also the selectivity of the ionic exchange knowing it can affect the lattice charge of the matrix?
Is there a way we can estimate this? or just by trial?
I need to download a chemistry book the original version in English and translated into Arabic that can help me , it is very importante
Dear crystallographers
I have synthesized and crystallized a compound but after the XRD study i found out that the crystal structure of this compound already exists (the attached file A is my structure B is that of literature)
but i noticed some differences :
- My structure's volume is large by around 7.6 A
- some minor difference in cell parameters.
- Clear difference in R1 (mine is better).
- Difference in number of asymmetric units Z'.
My questions are:
- Is my structure considered as a new structure ?
- Can i publish it ?
i have another structure (3rd one ) of the same compound but with a solvent inside the cell
- Can i publish both structures (A and the 3rd structure ) in same article as new polymorphs ?
ps: attached files: projection along the C axis of both structures with parameters
Thank you in advance


In the age of Covid19, is there a basic conflict between science and superstition in the discipline of medical knowledge? Are there some simple, sensible, robust and reasonable ways to distinguish a scientific statement (or fact) from a superstitious statement?
To stay focused, the topic will concentrate on science versus superstition in the scientific discipline of medicine. We will try our very best to stay focused and not stray off track. it is very easy to wander off message and be all over the map. i will try to summarize the key conclusions from time to time.
In the age of the Corona Virus, there are so many statements out there. The statements may not be scientific. But if they are not scientific, are they false? Are they fake? Are they simply statements based on superstition.
What should we do if people believe in statements that are not based on science? Should we be polite and tolerate their beliefs?
As long as people do not harm others, then from society’s point of view, the fact that people hold non-scientific hypotheses is probably benign. However, the trouble starts when the same people act these beliefs, and then cause harm to others. The question arises: what should society do in this case?
Based on the discussion, there are two assumptions and four categories.
Assumption1: Beliefs cannot be justified or unjustified.
Assumption2: hypotheses can be disproven
Scientific hypotheses that are based on justified facts in natural causation. Or scientific hypotheses have not been disproven (I prefer the negative formulation because we may never be able to prove anything but we are unable to disprove it.)
Since science cannot give a definitive answer, there are many competing answers that merit our attention, and we may not be able to select among them.
Non-scientific hypotheses are unjustified facts that may be “proven” in the future with better evidence and facts.
Pseudo-scientific hypotheses: not sure where these fit in?
Superstitions are unjustified beliefs in supernatural causation.
Biological techniques are methods or procedures that are used to study living things. They include experimental and computational methods, approaches, protocols and tools for biological research.
At both very high and very low water activities, lipid oxidation rates are high compared to the rate at intermediate water activities. What can explain this trend?
Does anyone know any software packages that can function in a similar user-friendly matter when drawing chemical structures as ChemDraw? I've done my own google searching, but I have yet to find an alternative to ChemDraw [for Mac Mountain Lion OS]. Any suggestions?
Angular shape not spherical
Or
Other than spherical geometry.
How to deal with this problem?
Example I have 10 sample, and I use duplo method. And we have a target for our sample's CV is under 5%
In the 7th sample, the coefficient of variance is more than 5%, but it happened only in the 7th sample. In this case, another sample is fine (CV less than 3%).
Do you have any idea what is going on?
Many efforts are spent to prevent, treat and stop COVID-19 spread.
but I think these efforts are fragmentary and not organized.
there is no platform for a scientific collaboration that could shorten the time of interesting findings, some nations hide some facts are a privilege of authorship or for other political reasons.
I think that all countries should a global platform for scientific collaboration.
Personally I have some ideas that could be proposed for the treatment of COVID-19 based on scientific facts but with the innovative mode of application, how and where can I try to apply them?
All nations should avoid wasting their time to find a solution for COVID-19 without international collaboration.
The SARS-CoV-2 genome was rapidly sequenced by Chinese researchers. It is an RNA molecule of about 30,000 bases containing 15 genes, including the S gene which codes for a protein located on the surface of the viral envelope (for comparison, our genome is in the form of a double helix of DNA about 3 billion bases in size and contains about 30,000 genes).
Comparative genomic analyses have shown that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the group of Betacoronaviruses and that it is very close to SARS-CoV, responsible for an epidemic of acute pneumonia which appeared in November 2002 in the Chinese province of Guangdong and then spread to 29 countries in 2003.
A total of 8,098 cases were recorded, including 774 deaths. It is known that bats of the genus Rhinolophus (potentially several cave species) were the reservoir of this virus and that a small carnivore, the palm civet (Paguma larvata), may have served as an intermediate host between bats and the first human cases.
Since then, many Betacoronaviruses have been discovered, mainly in bats, but also in humans. For example, RaTG13, isolated from a bat of the species Rhinolophus affinis collected in China's Yunan Province, has recently been described as very similar to SARS-CoV-2, with genome sequences identical to 96 percent.
These results indicate that bats, and in particular species of the genus Rhinolophus, constitute the reservoir of the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.
Hello,
So I have conducted an experiment looking at the size of silica nanoparticles. However, the results I obtained showed that at a lower mass concentration of SiO2, the volume and radius of individual particles are greater than that of higher SiO2 mass concentration.
I can't seem to find an explanation regarding this and was thinking that at lower mass concentration the individual particles colliding somehow caused them to agglomerate together causing the bigger particle size.
Dear researchers,
I have some salt solution analysis.
I want to know is there any software to estimate the scale deposition thickness in a specific time period on a metal plate at a known temperature (like a stainless steel heat exchanger)
I want to predict the scaling thickness in evaporative and non-evaporative condition.
Thanks.
Seems like a silly question but I'm having trouble with searching for CIF files via https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk. I've used it before but I was on university campus so I think I was able to use more than just the simple search function. I think I used structure search before and I was able to type in the compound name and the structural formula to get a CIF file, but now as I'm working from home, I don't have a CCDC licence and so I'm restricted to just the simple search. I've tried just typing in the compound name and no results come up. Will I need to search compound names with a paper that potentially has a CIF referenced? Or have I just misremembered how to use CCDC! Any and all help appreciated, thanks!
Column chromatography with Silica Gel columns with inbuilt UV detector.
Compound structure is mainly poly unsaturated fatty acids and analogs without UV handles.
basically scholar is having maths and statistics background but he is doing research in fluid mechanics. he is interested but difficulty is finding problem and doing paper publications.
so we need some suggestions. how to develop knowledge on this research area being a mathematics scholar.
Assume a solution with acidic pH, which consists of 2 and 3 valent iron ions. With increasing the pH, iron content will precipitate.
Do ferric and ferrous precipitate in an equal pH? If no, at what pH will precipitation happen for these ions?
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I am looking an all solid state halogenide ion conductor (conducting halogenides, not necessarily based on them) especially iodide ions for a solid state battery.
Poorly the research seems almost exclusively on monovalent cations like Na+/K+/Li+.
Also the ion conductor should have approximately 10^3- 10^-2 S/Cm at room temperature.
any ideas?
thanks a lot
Hi everybody!
I am PhD in analytical chemistry and I make part of a multidisciplinary team working on the development of a web based solution focusing mainly on treatment and management of environmental chemistry data. But in order be more acertive in this project I need to interview researchers worldwide to trace a more realistic picture on how they deal with their environmental data.
Could any of you please help me by giving me a 40 minute interview? We could make it via WhatsApp or Hangouts (or other choice).
Messages in private to more details are welcome!
Thank you all very much in advance.
Yours sincerely
Gilson
My lab has hydrazine sulphate. I need to convert it to hydrazine hydrate. How can I do this?
I want built a small biochemistry lab for research purpose ( Phytochemical Study).
Phytochemical screening
It refers to the extraction, screening and identification of the medicinally active substances found in plants. Some of the bioactive substances that can be derived from plants are flavonoids, alkaloids, carotenoids, tannin, antioxidants and phenolic compounds.
Please give me some guideline and references for built a small laboratory.
What are the oil based inputs for production of bio-polyamides for application in textile sector?
When comparing different Li-ion cells (no cooling) , what is the general trends in cycle life vs temperature? Across different Li-ion chemistries (NMC622, 532, NCA etc), is there a generic trend.
Hi everyone,
I'm not able to find the correct citation style for Rubber Chemistry and Technology (ACS). I'm using the Endnote plug-in "Cite while you write" for Microsoft word.
The references should be superscript, listed by appearance order and edited using first name, surname. Such as:
R. B. Fox, RUBBER CHEM. TECHNOL. 68, 547 (1995). doi:10.5254/1.3538755
P. J. Nieuwenhuizen, J. M. van Veen, J. G. Haasnoot, and J. Reedijk, RUBBER CHEM. TECHNOL. 72, 27 (1999); 72, 43 (1999).
The "ACS-no title" citation style seems to be ok, but in the list, the surname appears before the name (as usual) and it is wrong.
Fox R. B., RUBBER CHEM. TECHNOL. 68, 547 (1995). doi:10.5254/1.3538755
Thanks for any advice,
francesco valentini
Using DCM as a solvent for functionalizing a gold/silicon substrate with a self assembled monolayer by immersion. I noticed that after while, the solution is turning cloudy. Why does that happen?