How shoud one switch off a rotary vane pump?

How shoud I switch off a rotary vane pump? Should I initially turn off the pump and then open the shutter to normalize the pressure? Or the order of the actions should be vice versa?

07 August 2019 3,249 3 View

Which type of bonds is more preferable when drawing chiral centers?

Which type of bonds is more preferable when drawing chiral centers? Wedged and hashed wedged/hollow wedged bonds or bold and hashed bonds?

02 March 2018 4,348 1 View

How should one name an 1,3-dicarbonyl compound existing in enol form? According to IUPAC, should it be named as 1,3-dione or 3-hydroxy-2-en-1-one?

How should one name an 1,3-dicarbonyl compound existing in enol form? According to IUPAC, should it be named as 1,3-dione or 3-hydroxy-2-en-1-one?

01 February 2018 4,525 0 View

What difference in total energy (kcal/mol) is considered to be significant?

I optimized two diastereomers in GAUSSIAN and got two values of total energy. So, I need to decide are these diastereomers energetically equal or one of them is more preferable termodinamically....

05 June 2017 274 5 View

What compound does result from Lawesson's Reagent after it thiolates smth?

What compound does result from Lawesson's Reagent after it thiolates smth?

10 November 2016 3,256 2 View

How to obtain dry DMF saturated with dry HCl?

How to obtain dry DMF saturated with dry HCl?

09 October 2016 1,203 4 View

Does anybody have experience in ordering chemicals from Shanghai Systeam BioChem.,CO Ltd? What was their contact information?

Does anybody have experience in ordering chemicals from Shanghai Systeam BioChem.,CO Ltd? What was their contact information?

05 June 2016 3,260 1 View

Does anybody know where I can buy Ethyl 2-amino-4-methyl-5-phenylthiophene-3-carboxylate (CAS 4815-38-7)?

05 June 2016 243 2 View

Why carboxyl group is inactive in Diels-Alder reaction?

Are there any examples of Diels-Alder reaction in which carboxyl group (in acids or esters) acts as a part of a dien or a dienophile? What are the reasons of its inactivity in this reaction?

31 December 2014 2,512 3 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

Any Homemade Organic Synthesis Practices?

Hi everyone, I am a teacher of Heterocycles Synthesis, Is there a home practice that you recommend for undergraduate students? A simulator would also be useful Due to the pandemic, students...

18 February 2021 2,769 4 View

How to predict the reaction pathway for electro organic synthesis?

Can anyone recommend some any software/models available that can predict substance reactivities and the reaction yield under a specific set of reaction conditions process and proposing pathways to...

17 February 2021 2,383 3 View

Has anyone encountered any problems with abm good microRNA primers for quantification of mature miRNAs?

I've been trying to quantitate mature microRNAs in 293T cells with and without 'X'. 2ug of total RNA (isolated by Trizol method) is converted to cDNA using All-in one microRNA cDNA synthesis kit...

17 February 2021 8,986 2 View

How to measure acetic anhydride solution with 18M sulfuric acid?

I am doing research on the synthesis of paracetamol. I am preparing acetic anhydride solution with a few drops a sulfuric acid and wish to measure the pH of this solution. However my pH meter...

14 February 2021 8,699 3 View

Best synthesis method for large scale silver nanoparticle synthesis with high yield?.Best post processing steps after nanoparticle synthesis?

I have chemically synthesized silver nanoparticle to combat microbes on wound site. I have used many methods of synthesis, but I found minimal field of silver NP product.I am getting whitish...

11 February 2021 4,964 13 View

CDNA synthesis or qPCR did not work?

Hi everyone! I extracted RNA from urine pellet using phenol-chloroform method. The yield of RNA was 160ng/uL. 3uL of RNA was used for cDNA synthesis in 20 uL reaction using Go-Script kit....

05 February 2021 6,587 4 View

Polymer synthesis simulation - which software?

Hello, I am a synthetic polymer chemist. I would like to explore the simulation counterpart of my experimental work. Can anyone suggest a good software able to simulate polymerization reactions,...

04 February 2021 2,672 4 View

Safety of the SARS-Cov-2 mRNA vaccine?

Dear colleagues I have the following questions concerning the safety of mRNA vaccines targeting the spike protein of SARS-Cov2: 1) The vaccine elicits antibodies which block the peptide domain...

04 February 2021 721 6 View