White City is a small area in west london created as an exhibition site in 1908, morphing over the years into an Olympic games venue, a greyhound track, the home nearby of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and most recently the new western campus for Imperial College London.♣ The first Imperial department to move into the MSRH (Molecular Sciences Research Hub) building is chemistry. As a personal celebration of this occasion, I here dedicate three transition states located during my first week of occupancy there, naming them the White City trio following earlier inspiration by a string trio and their own instruments.
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The “White City Trio” – The formation of an amide from an acid and an amine in non-polar solution (updated).
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018Tags:acetic acid, Acid, Amide, Amine, carboxylic acid, Chemistry, Company: BBC, Company: British Broadcasting Corporation, energy, Ester, exhibition site, free energy barrier, Functional groups, Hydrogen bond, Imperial College, Imperial College London, Ionic product, Newspaper & Magazine Printing Services, Non-ionic product, Olympic games, Organic chemistry, White City Trio
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