Metallome

While I wasn’t looking, the InChI folks implemented the metal-reconnected layer. Isn’t it nice? I discovered it quite by chance thanks to t...

Last time I took part in the Intra-Universal Panel of Astronomical Chemistry, I had a most edifying and enjoyable discussion with an alien ...

What is a covalent bond ? We learn in school that it is a chemical bond formed by shared pairs of electrons between atoms. The Gold Book pr...

Let us come back to inorganic oxoacids and their anions . Observe the structures (a) through (c) : (a) (b) (c) [CO(OH) ...

Let’s turn our attention now to other kind of acids. You know what I’m talking about: carboxylic acids. Here’s the simplest one (a) : ...

Many of the chemical names referred today to as “common” or “trivial” — as opposed to “systematic” — at the time were very much systematic....

Systematic chemical names are created, at least in part, on paper, and probably were never meant to be pronounced. It is not only about the...