The Clemmensen reduction of ketones and aldehydes is the simplest direct method for converting the carbonyl group into a methylene group
100th Anniversary: Clemmensen Reduction
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250th Birthday: Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin discovered chromium and beryllium; answer to Guess the Chemist (17)
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Faster-than-Light Travel in 50 Years
50 years until Zefram Cochrane’s test flight of The Phoenix, Earth’s first warp ship; answer to Guess the Chemist 16
Like a Detective Story: The Discovery of C60
The discovery of fullerenes was neither quick nor easy, and was rich in surprising twists
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50th Anniversary: Supercritical Fluid Extraction
Kurt Zosel, Germany, first patented supercritical fluid extraction in 1963; answer to Guess the Chemist (15)
Traveling the World with Chemistry: A Chemist’s Journey
In 1953, Tetsuo Nozoe, pioneer in nonbenzenoid chemistry, went on a four-month tour of 120 chemistry laboratories – Track his journey
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