A detailed account of WCLM2021 will follow in the next issue of Chem Int. at https://iupac.org/event/wclm2021/ . Once it was clear the prevailing COVID-19 conditions would mean that the 2021 WCLM would be virtual, the planning committee decided to take advantage of an online setting ...
Alexander Shulgin writes about how much fun it is to make drugs. To the outside observer, it may seem like a luxury, a rich man’s hobby. Well, hobbyists can have a certain modest scale of participation in any hobby. This hobby is chemistry. It doesn’t always have to be about ...
The article (and site) is meant to be utilitarian. I would rather have someone understand the terms as they are used in the field, rather than puzzle through the IUPAC definition and not obtain an answer. Like the Oxford English Dictionary, IUPAC is a lagging indicator of u...
Bromine water is a dilute solution of bromine used as a reagent in a range of chemical experiments. While it can be made in a chemistry lab by mixing the fumes of liquid bromine directly with water, this requires the use of a fume hood and heavy protective clothing, and is not suitable ...
Topic: How to figure out longest chain? (Read 9947 times) I attached a picture of a structure in which I thought the name was 2-methyl-3-isopropylpentane. But, it really is 3-ethyl-2,4-dimethylpentane.
Currently, according to IUPAC recommendation, the hydrogen bond is defined as an attractive interaction between a hydrogen atom from a molecule or a molecular fragment X–H in which X is more electronegative than H, and an atom or a group of atoms in the same or a different molecule, in ...