Janus was the mythological Roman god depicted as having two heads facing opposite directions, looking simultaneously into the past and the future. Some of the most ancient (i.e. 19th century) known reactions can be considered part of a chemical mythology; perhaps it is time for a Janus-like look into their future.
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Janus mechanisms (the past and the future): Reactions of the diazonium cation.
Saturday, December 11th, 2010Tags:activation free energy, benzonitrile product, chemical mythology, coloured solutions, cyano, diazo, diazonium, free energy, Henry Rzepa, Historical, Ion-Pair Mechanisms, L. A., nitrogen gas
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(Hyper)activating the chemistry journal.
Monday, September 7th, 2009The science journal is generally acknowledged as first appearing around 1665 with the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in London and (simultaneously) the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. By the turn of the millennium, around 10,000 science and medical journals were estimated to exist. By then, the Web had been around for a decade, and most journals had responded to this new medium by re-inventing themselves for it. For most part, they adopted a format which emulated paper (Acrobat), with a few embellishments (such as making the text fully searchable) and then used the Web to deliver this new reformulation of the journal. Otherwise, Robert Hooke would have easily recognized the medium he helped found in the 17th century.
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