Archive for December, 2016
Saturday, December 31st, 2016
My holiday reading has been Derek Lowe’s excellent Chemistry Book setting out 250 milestones in chemistry, organised by year. An entry for 1920 entitled hydrogen bonding seemed worth exploring in more detail here.
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Tags:10.1021, aqueous solution, Chemical bond, chemical bonding, Chemistry, Derek Lowe, Historical, Hydrogen, Hydrogen bond, Intermolecular forces, Lowe's, Nature, Supramolecular chemistry
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Saturday, December 24th, 2016
The previous posts produced discussion about the dipole moments of highly polar molecules. Here to produce some reference points for further discussion I look at the dipole moment of glycine, the classic zwitterion (an internal ion-pair).
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Tags:aqueous solution, Chemical polarity, Chemistry, dielectric, Dipole, Electric dipole moment, Electromagnetism, Interesting chemistry, Magnetism, Moment, Nature, Physical quantities, Physics, Potential theory, zwitterion
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
I am completing my survey of the vote for molecule of the year candidates, which this year seems focused on chemical records of one type or another.
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Tags:chemical publishing, chemical records, human chemical perception, Interesting chemistry, Matter, metal, Molecule, Nature, search query, search software, Voting
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Sunday, December 18th, 2016
This, the fourth candidate provided by C&EN for a vote for the molecule of the year as discussed here, lays claim to the World’s most polar neutral molecule (system 1 shown below).[1] Here I explore a strategy for extending that record.
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References
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J. Wudarczyk, G. Papamokos, V. Margaritis, D. Schollmeyer, F. Hinkel, M. Baumgarten, G. Floudas, and K. Müllen, "Hexasubstituted Benzenes with Ultrastrong Dipole Moments", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 55, pp. 3220-3223, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201508249
Tags:Approval voting, Interesting chemistry, Voting
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Friday, December 16th, 2016
Here is a third candidate for the C&EN “molecule of the year” vote. This one was shortlisted because it is the first example of a metal-nitrogen complex exhibiting single, double and triple bonds from different nitrogens to the same metal[1] (XUZLUB has a 3D display available at DOI: 10.5517/CC1JYY6M). Since no calculation of its molecular properties was reported, I annotate some here.
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References
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E.P. Beaumier, B.S. Billow, A.K. Singh, S.M. Biros, and A.L. Odom, "A complex with nitrogen single, double, and triple bonds to the same chromium atom: synthesis, structure, and reactivity", Chemical Science, vol. 7, pp. 2532-2536, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5sc04608d
Tags:10.14469, chemical shifts, expert chemical knowledge, Interesting chemistry, metal, metal-nitrogen complex exhibiting single, search query
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Monday, December 12th, 2016
Chemical and engineering news (C&EN) is asking people to vote for their molecule of the year from six highlighted candidates. This reminded me of the history of internet-based “molecules of the moment“. It is thought that the concept originated in December 1995 here at Imperial and in January 1996 at Bristol University by Paul May and we were joined by Karl Harrison at Oxford shortly thereafter. Quite a few more such sites followed this concept, differentiated by their time intervals of weeks, months or years. The genre is well suited for internet display because of plugins or “helpers” such as Rasmol, Chime, Jmol and now JSmol which allow the three dimensions of molecular structures to be explored by the reader. Here I discuss a second candidate from the C&EN list; a ferrocene-based Ferris wheel[1],[2] (DOI for 3D model: 10.5517/CCDC.CSD.CC1JPKYQ) originating from research carried out at Imperial by Tim Albrecht, Nick Long and colleagues.
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References
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M.S. Inkpen, S. Scheerer, M. Linseis, A.J.P. White, R.F. Winter, T. Albrecht, and N.J. Long, "Oligomeric ferrocene rings", Nature Chemistry, vol. 8, pp. 825-830, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2553
Tags:American Chemical Society, Bristol University, Chemical & Engineering News, Chemistry, Engineering, Interesting chemistry, internet display, Karl Harrison, metal centres, Nick Long, Paul May, Tim Albrecht
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Thursday, December 1st, 2016
Following on from a search for long C-C bonds, here is the same repeated for C=C double bonds.
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Tags:Chemical bond, chemical bonding, Chemical nomenclature, Chemistry, Conjugated system, double bond, energy, Interesting chemistry, Nature, Nonmetal, Organic chemistry, Physical organic chemistry, search query, Substituent
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