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Chemistry is when ... it stinks!!
Friends, check this out!
There is an interesting website about
flavors of fruits . Better yet, the MC2 group at Cal
created a
Smell Database . You can search chemicals by name. Upon selection of
a chemical, you can learn about its properties, occurrence, and
- you guessed it - its smell. You can't really smell it yet, but just you
wait ...
Carbamates in Insecticides and Herbicides
Carbamates are frequently used as insecticides and herbicides and they are
produced by reaction of an alcohol with isocyanates. The isocyanates
are rather toxic because they readily react with all kinds of
nucleophiles available in the body.
The insecticide SERVIN can be produced in this way by reaction of
methylisocyanate with naphthol. During such production in a plant in
BHOPAL, INDIA, a massive leak of methylisocyanate led to the worst
chemical accident in history.
The
Trade and Environmental Database (TED) gathers information on such
accidents and you might want to take a look just how bad the accident at
BHOPAL was.
Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin
Nobel Price in Medicine 1945
Vitae
Vitae (Where Flemings picture came from.)
Another Mini-Vitae
(Says something about the many honors that followed the discovery.)
Penicillin and Wartime Biomedicine (Class noted from a History course
at SUNY.)