Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...

Sodium azide is a white powder that explodes when it hits metal. When it hits water, it turns into an acid that can eat through your skin. When it’s inhaled, it shreds your lungs. But for a long time, ...

The chemistry of azide-tetrazole systems has attracted significant attention due to the intriguing equilibrium between the azido and tetrazole forms. This tautomeric interplay is not only fundamental ...

A new reaction that makes azides from virtually any primary amine gives chemists the ability to create vast libraries of compounds poised for click chemistry. The transformation, discovered by Jiajia ...

The kinetics of the thermal decomposition of silver azide have been studied and the results found to fit a rate equation d(N2)/dt = k(AgN3)2/3. The energy of activation of the decomposition has been ...

From the sourcing of the raw material to the production of capsules, it takes a full 12 months to make Tamiflu, according to Martin Karpf of Swiss drug giant F. Hoffmann-La Roches synthetic and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two mechanisms have been proposed for the build-up of detonation by solid explosives: (a) In the self-heating mechanism, when heat is evolved ...