Review: Vermiculite
as a Reagent for Organic Synthesis.
Expanded mica (Vermiculite) finds it's way into many organic reactions.
We present a comprehensive review of the use of this packaging material
in organic synthesis. |
pp 35-38 |
Mesylation of One's Face.
Mesylation of human skin may be accomplished by the application of
methanesulphonyl chloride, in a dichloromethane-aerosol. |
pp 39-40 |
Upon Cleaning Glassware:
Chromic Acid or "Smash-it-and-bin-it"?
Chromic acid is often the last resort for stubborn contamination on
glassware. However, the option of smashing the apparatus, and disposing
of it as waste glass, is often overlooked. The merits of both techniques
are discussed in this communication. |
pp 41-42 |
Inventing Realistic Elemental Analysis
Data.
When presenting elemental analysis data, the accuracy of the technique
must be taken into consideration if the numbers chosen are to be believable. |
pp 43-44 |
10 Things You Don't Want
to Hear From Your Supervisor.
Phrases and keywords to watch out for from academics. |
pp 45-52 |
X-Ray Crystal Structures of Uninteresting
By-products.
By-products such as dicyclohexylurea, triethylammonium hydrochloride
and triphenylphosphine oxide, produce excellent crystals for X-ray crystallographic
analysis. |
pp 53-54 |
Do I Have to Get an IR?
The Project-Student's Dilemma.
The usefulness of infrared spectroscopy in the third millennium is
questioned, with respect to high-field NMR and other modern analytical
techniques. |
pp 55-58 |
Phthalate Plasticisers and how to Spot
them.
Is your mystery compound di-octylphthalate? Full analytical data is
presented to aid identification, and avoid the embarrasment of your MS
operator telling you what you've isolated and how many times they've seen
it before. |
pp 59-60 |
An Improved Technique
for the Extraction of Small Quantities of Organic Material From 5 Litres
of Warm, Hard Water.
Occasionally a small quantity of highly valuable material must be extracted
from a large volume of unsanitary water. This communication presents an
improved method of recovering from such a crisis. |
pp 61-62 |
Nesco-Film®: a First-Aid Essential
Nesco-Film® may be employed as a temporary
surgical bandage, preventing blood-loss and spillage. The relative merits
of Nesco-Film® as compared to Para-Film®
and Sellotape® are discussed at length. |
pp 63-64 |
Compounds That Won't
Run on GC. Numbers 102 to 200.
A pre-requisite for GC analysis is that analytes must have relatively
low boiling points. Ninety-nine further compounds that do not fulfil this
requirement are presented here. |
pp 65-72 |
