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Some chemistry nerd porn - List of plant compounds
Good stuff. I'm actually working on a list of medicinal plants and their chemical constituents. I've ...
10-7-2012 at 20:02
by: White Yeti
tryptamines in RCG
Perhaps the gramine can be selectively degraded by using a carefully engineered bacterium?
10-7-2012 at 19:44
by: White Yeti
Practical uses of granular aerogel?
Aerogels are also used as filters, where granules are just as good as solid blocks in certain cases. ...
10-7-2012 at 19:26
by: White Yeti
Pretty Pictures (1)
[rquote=253257&tid=14644&author=Endimion17]Is the crystal opaque, or is it only very dark, a ...
10-7-2012 at 18:38
by: White Yeti
Pretty Pictures (1)
Thanks for the advice Endimion. I wish I could take it, but I have tried to control the shutter spee ...
3-7-2012 at 10:33
by: White Yeti
Pretty Pictures (1)
Here is a copper acetate crystal that took me about a month to grow. I used flash to show the crysta ...
3-7-2012 at 07:25
by: White Yeti
What is chemistry?
I chose option three, however I also think that it's incomplete all by itself. The periodic table ch ...
2-7-2012 at 11:07
by: White Yeti
The Sciencemadness Book Project, Revived
I have a single crystal of copper acetate as large as a fingernail and it's still growing. It will b ...
1-7-2012 at 18:15
by: White Yeti
Tannic acid to gallic acid
I'm missing argon, NaOH, NaHSO3 and HCl :( Unfortunately, experimentation is viewed as more of an al ...
25-6-2012 at 11:08
by: White Yeti
Tannic acid to gallic acid
Thanks GC. I don't have the reagents required for that procedure, but I'll see if I can get hold of ...
25-6-2012 at 08:58
by: White Yeti
On the acid catalysed hydrolysis of tannic acid.
Acid catalysed ester hydrolysis:
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/catalysis/hydrolyse.html
25-6-2012 at 08:28
by: White Yeti
Tannic acid to gallic acid
Good stuff bibliomaster. Between the time I posted this and now I tried the hydrolysis with sodium b ...
24-6-2012 at 18:58
by: White Yeti
On the acid catalysed hydrolysis of tannic acid.
My first choice for obtaining tannins was sumac (the non-poisonous variety) but the flowers were not ...
24-6-2012 at 18:45
by: White Yeti
On the acid catalysed hydrolysis of tannic acid.
Hello everyone,

I recently attempted to depolymerise some tannic acid to get hold of gallic acid. ...
24-6-2012 at 13:09
by: White Yeti
Tannic acid to gallic acid
I was wondering how would one de-polymerise tannic acid into gallic acid monomers.

My ultimate go ...
21-6-2012 at 16:29
by: White Yeti
Essential Oil Extraction
In the case of essential oil extraction, a soxhlet extractor is not ideal. What you're looking for i ...
21-6-2012 at 16:18
by: White Yeti
On the subject of iron carminate.
Carminic acid is a valuable acid extracted from cochineals. Cochineals must be harvested by hand, ma ...
15-6-2012 at 18:38
by: White Yeti
Essential Oil Extraction
This is a nice set-up, and a success indeed. The key with extracting oils from plants is an issue we ...
8-6-2012 at 17:44
by: White Yeti
Pretty Pictures (1)
That's an amazing chromatography column, it's taller than I am:o:o

Did you make any TLCs to analy ...
3-6-2012 at 17:17
by: White Yeti
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
I'm not sure if this has already been discussed, but is trisodium phosphate a suitable replacement t ...
2-6-2012 at 12:25
by: White Yeti
Identifying Unknown Compounds in a Lab
Strange, they don't give you any sodium bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate can be useful in identifying ...
1-6-2012 at 14:39
by: White Yeti
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
Has anyone tried powdered iron as a reducing agent? Perhaps the lower melting point of its oxide as ...
29-5-2012 at 09:25
by: White Yeti
Reaction between phosphorous and nitrogen?
[rquote=249581&tid=20208&author=Zan Divine]
Not to be a smart-ass but the paper you referen ...
26-5-2012 at 12:02
by: White Yeti
Making a domestic refrigerator suitable for lab use
I'm just wondering, isn't a refrigerator (regardless of the thermostat's hazards) better than nothin ...
25-5-2012 at 13:08
by: White Yeti
worthy biochemical/medical research topics for home experimentation?
Have you tried column chromatography? I've always wanted to generate mass quantities of pure natural ...
25-5-2012 at 12:55
by: White Yeti
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