Carothers, Condensation Polymerisation, & Nylon

On this day in 1896, Wallace Carothers was born. Listed by C&EN magazine intheir recent list of scientists who should have won a Nobel prize, we have Carothers to thank for nylon, which can be used in clothing, carpets, car parts and more. Here’s a quick look at the chemistry behind the ...

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Wir haben bereits in einem früheren Beitrag die funktionellen Gruppen untersucht, die in organischen Molekülen vorhanden sein können; hier schauen wir einen Blick weiter, auf Heterocyclen. Heterocyclen sind in der organischen Chemie enorm wichtig - sie machen mehr als die Hälfte aller bekannten ...

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With it being half term here in the UK, what better use of sudden vast amounts of free time could there be than making an organic chemistry reaction map? This graphic looks at simple interconversions between common functional groups in organic chemistry. I’m not going to pretend it’s ...

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Back to basics with today’s graphic, with a look at the different ways compounds in organic chemistry can be represented. Obviously, if you’re a chemist, these will all be second nature, but as was quite fairly pointed out with regards to the food chemistry graphics, if you’re not well versed in ...

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Here’s a reaction map looking at reactions that allow you to vary the substituents on a benzene ring. This was a far larger undertaking than expected; the bulk of the work on the organic reaction map was done in the space of a day, whereas this one is probably pushing towards three days – suffice ...

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In der organischen Chemie sind Isomere Moleküle mit der gleichen Summenformel (d.h. der gleichen Anzahl von Atomen pro Element), aber unterschiedlichen strukturellen oder räumlichen Anordnungen der Atome innerhalb des Moleküls. Der Grund für die enorme Anzahl an organischen Verbindungen - mehr ...

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Benzene is a hugely important compound in organic chemistry. It consists of six carbon atoms joined together in a ring, with a hydrogen atom bonded to each carbon; by replacing one or more of these hydrogens with a functional group, a large number of different compounds can be formed. This ...

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Today’s post is a quick one with a look at alcohol oxidation reactions. This graphic tries to provide a basic summary of the reagents used, equipment required, and ways of identifying the products formed. A prominence is given to sodium and potassium dichromate as oxidising agents, despite the ...

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