Chemists are constantly pushing the boundaries of synthetic methodology. More specifically, they are finding new ways of doing the same reactions they were doing 20 years ago, with a twist. We’ve developed our own iteration of this copy-catalysis by exposing chemical reactions to sounds. Unfortunately, sonochemistry already exists, so we’re using music instead and calling it “echochemistry”.

Don Jalton Jose Jesus de Manchester y Birmingham (1730-1800) was an expatriot Spanish scientist and polymath who developed an atomic theory predating that credited to Dalton. Jalton can claim to be the real originator of modern chemistry. This article explores the life of a forgotten chemical pioneer.

It was a cold and miserable evening at the University of Redacted. Inside the chemistry building, a lonesome chemist makes his way to a glovebox, with a flask of DMSO in hand…

Have you ever attempted to reproduce a literature procedure, compared your shitty bar-code style spectra to their exhibition grade masterpiece and exclaimed “how the fuck did they do that?” Then perhaps you too have encountered BS-NMR.