http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/02/oseltamivirtamiflu-part-1-all-about-chemistry/ Molecules: You'd Better Learn to Live With Them Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:50:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/02/oseltamivirtamiflu-part-1-all-about-chemistry/#comment-47 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:22:07 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/02/oseltamivirtamiflu-part-1-all-about-chemistry/#comment-47 why is the azeridine meso how can the azeridine be prepared fro 1,4-cyclohexadiene why is the azeridine opening desymmetric give a summary of the corey synthesis why is the azeridine meso
how can the azeridine be prepared fro 1,4-cyclohexadiene
why is the azeridine opening desymmetric
give a summary of the corey synthesis

]]> http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/02/oseltamivirtamiflu-part-1-all-about-chemistry/#comment-13 Fri, 05 May 2006 00:55:26 +0000 http://www.moleculeoftheday.com/2006/05/02/oseltamivirtamiflu-part-1-all-about-chemistry/#comment-13 [...] Every organic compound has a systematic name like this, it’s just that they get prohibitively long for the larger ones. If you remember Tamiflu from the other day, its systematic name is “(3R,4R,5S)-4-Acetylamino-5-amino-3-(1-ethyl-propoxy)-cyclohex-1-enecarboxylic acid ethyl ester.” In practice, though, we rarely use these unless it’s easy - like SDS (and even here, we’ve abbreviated. lazy scientists.). If you happen to be taking an organic chemistry class right now, you are plenty familiar with naming compounds (don’t worry, it pretty much ends after you’re done with that class). If pressed, I could get that name, but only after a minute or two of staring at the structure and a few abortive attempts. If we ever really need a systematic name, The program I use to draw structures for the site has a brilliant piece of software called “AutoNom” in it that will convert names to structures. And back. Like I said, though, even chemists call the stuff in mosquito repellent DEET instead of N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide. One more thing about nomenclature, then I’m done, promise. While SDS sounds like it belongs in the lab, you’ve used it. A lot. Go get everything out of your medicine cabinet and look at the labels. “Sodium lauryl sulfate” is the same thing. If you have something that gets foamy - liquid soap, shampoo, even toothpaste - there is a good chance it will have SDS in it. Sodium laureth sulfate is close, but not quite the same thing. OK. That’s it. For names, anyway. Go put everything away now. [...] […] Every organic compound has a systematic name like this, it’s just that they get prohibitively long for the larger ones. If you remember Tamiflu from the other day, its systematic name is “(3R,4R,5S)-4-Acetylamino-5-amino-3-(1-ethyl-propoxy)-cyclohex-1-enecarboxylic acid ethyl ester.” In practice, though, we rarely use these unless it’s easy - like SDS (and even here, we’ve abbreviated. lazy scientists.). If you happen to be taking an organic chemistry class right now, you are plenty familiar with naming compounds (don’t worry, it pretty much ends after you’re done with that class). If pressed, I could get that name, but only after a minute or two of staring at the structure and a few abortive attempts. If we ever really need a systematic name, The program I use to draw structures for the site has a brilliant piece of software called “AutoNom” in it that will convert names to structures. And back. Like I said, though, even chemists call the stuff in mosquito repellent DEET instead of N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide. One more thing about nomenclature, then I’m done, promise. While SDS sounds like it belongs in the lab, you’ve used it. A lot. Go get everything out of your medicine cabinet and look at the labels. “Sodium lauryl sulfate” is the same thing. If you have something that gets foamy - liquid soap, shampoo, even toothpaste - there is a good chance it will have SDS in it. Sodium laureth sulfate is close, but not quite the same thing. OK. That’s it. For names, anyway. Go put everything away now. […]

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