How do I measure the molecular weight of polymer without the use of GPC?

01 January 1970 7,246 10 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

What is the right way to conjugate two acids?

How to conjugate two acids with amine linker?

18 February 2021 4,083 2 View

Mixture neutralization after Boc deprotection ?

I am performing a Boc-deprotection with HCl in organic solvent (dioxane or Ethylacetate) but would like to isolate the free amine. Several problems: - Neutralizing with inorganic base as NEt3...

18 February 2021 3,366 3 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

What is the role of ether solvent (such as THF) in Sonogashira coupling?

Can Amine (such as Et3N) be used as solvent as well as base for the Sonogashira Coupling? How to decide the amount of solvent to be used in any reaction? Does the amount of solvent affect the...

14 February 2021 4,018 3 View

Peptide precipitation as pre-step for acid hydrolysis for amino acid analysis?

I'm currently experiencing problems during acid hydrolysis for total amino acid analysis as my first samples contain high amounts of sugar (I get too low results back). I therefore had the idea to...

14 February 2021 6,049 3 View