Converting a mixture of mirror-image forms, or stereoisomers, of a molecule into a single isomer is a big deal in making pharmaceuticals, because usually only one isomer is useful as a drug. But ...
Few functional groups are as popular in synthesis as the carbonyl group. Composed of an oxygen molecule doubly bonded to carbon, the carbonyl welcomes reaction with all types of nucleophiles.
SOME time ago Straub (in Szent-Györgyi's laboratory) described a colorimetric method for the determination of pyruvic acid, similar to the method previously proposed by Csonka for the determination of ...