
The Chemistry Book
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- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- c. 500,000 BCE: Crystals
- c. 3300 BCE: Bronze
- c. 2800 BCE: Soap
- c. 1300 BCE: Iron Smelting
- c. 1200 BCE: Purification
- c. 550 BCE: Gold Refining
- c. 450 BCE: The Four Elements
- c. 400 BCE: Atomism
- 210 BCE: Mercury
- c. 60 CE: Natural Products
- c. 126: Roman Concrete
- c. 200: Porcelain
- c. 672: Greek Fire
- c. 800: The Philosopher's Stone
- c. 800: Viking Steel
- c. 850: Gunpowder
- c. 900: Alchemy
- c. 1280: Aqua Regia
- c. 1280: Fractional Distillation
- 1538: Toxicology
- 1540: Diethyl Ether
- 1556: De Re Metallica
- 1605: The Advancement of Learning
- 1607: Yorkshire Alum
- 1631: Quinine
- 1661: The Sceptical Chymist
- 1667: Phlogiston
- 1669: Phosphorus
- 1700: Hydrogen Sulfide
- c. 1706: Prussian Blue
- 1746: Sulfuric Acid
- 1752: Hydrogen Cyanide
- 1754: Carbon Dioxide
- 1758: Cadet's Fuming Liquid
- 1766: Hydrogen
- 1774: Oxygen
- 1789: Conservation of Mass
- 1791: Titanium
- 1792: Ytterby
- 1804: Morphine
- 1805: Electroplating
- 1806: Amino Acids
- 1807: Electrochemical Reduction
- 1808: Dalton's Atomic Theory
- 1811: Avogadro's Hypothesis
- 1813: Chemical Notation
- 1814: Paris Green
- 1815: Cholesterol
- 1819: Caffeine
- 1822: Supercritical Fluids
- 1828: Beryllium
- 1828: Wöhler's Urea Synthesis
- 1832: Functional Groups
- 1834: Ideal Gas Law
- 1834: Photochemistry
- 1839: Polymers and Polymerization
- 1839: Daguerreotype
- 1839: Rubber
- 1840: Ozone
- 1842: Phosphate Fertilizer
- 1847: Nitroglycerine
- 1848: Chirality
- 1852: Fluorescence
- 1854: Separatory Funnel
- 1856: Perkin's Mauve
- 1856: Mirror Silvering
- 1859: Flame Spectroscopy
- 1860: Cannizzaro at Karlsruhe
- 1860: Oxidation States
- 1861: Erlenmeyer Flask
- 1861: Structural Formula
- 1864: Solvay Process
- 1865: Benzene and Aromaticity
- 1868: Helium
- 1869: The Periodic Table
- 1874: Tetrahedral Carbon Atoms
- 1876: Gibbs Free Energy
- 1877: Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
- 1877: Friedel-Crafts Reaction
- 1878: Indigo Synthesis
- 1879: Soxhlet Extractor
- 1881: Fougère Royale
- 1883: Claus Process
- 1883: Liquid Nitrogen
- 1884: Fischer and Sugars
- 1885: Le Châtelier's Principle
- 1886: Isolation of Fluorine
- 1886: Aluminum
- 1887: Cyanide Gold Extraction
- 1888: Liquid Crystals
- 1891: Thermal Cracking
- 1892: Chlor-Alkali Process
- 1892: Acetylene
- 1893: Thermite
- 1893: Borosilicate Glass
- 1893: Coordination Compounds
- 1894: The Mole
- 1894: Asymmetric Induction
- 1894: Diazomethane
- 1895: Liquid Air
- 1896: Greenhouse Effect
- 1897: Aspirin
- 1897: Zymase Fermentation
- 1897: Hydrogenation
- 1898: Neon
- 1900: Grignard Reaction
- 1900: Free Radicals
- 1900: Silicones
- 1901: Chromatography
- 1902: Polonium and Radium
- 1905: Infrared Spectroscopy
- 1907: Bakelite®
- 1907: Spider Silk
- 1909: pH and Indicators
- 1909: Haber-Bosch Process
- 1909: Salvarsan
- 1912: X-Ray Crystallography
- 1912: Maillard Reaction
- 1912: Stainless Steel
- 1912: Boranes and the Vacuum-Line Technique
- 1912: Dipole Moments
- 1913: Mass Spectrometry
- 1913: Isotopes
- 1915: Chemical Warfare
- 1917: Surface Chemistry
- 1918: Radithor
- 1920: Dean-Stark Trap
- 1920: Hydrogen Bonding
- 1921: Tetraethyl Lead
- 1923: Acids and Bases
- 1923: Radioactive Tracers
- 1925: Fischer-Tropsch Process
- 1928: Diels-Alder Reaction
- 1928: Reppe Chemistry
- 1930: Chlorofluorocarbons
- 1931: Sigma and Pi Bonding
- 1931: Deuterium
- 1932: Carbonic Anhydrase
- 1932: Vitamin C
- 1932: Sulfanilamide
- 1933: Polyethylene
- 1934: Superoxide
- 1934: The Fume Hood
- 1935: Transition State Theory
- 1935: Nylon
- 1936: Nerve Gas
- 1936: Technetium
- 1937: Cellular Respiration
- 1937: Elixir Sulfanilamide
- 1937: Reaction Mechanisms
- 1938: Catalytic Cracking
- 1938: Teflon®
- 1939: The Last Element in Nature
- 1939: The Nature of the Chemical Bond
- 1939: DDT
- 1940: Gaseous Diffusion
- 1942: Steroid Chemistry
- 1942: Cyanoacrylates
- 1943: LSD
- 1943: Streptomycin
- 1943: Bari Raid
- 1944: Birch Reduction
- 1944: Magnetic Stirring
- 1945: Penicillin
- 1945: Glove Boxes
- 1947: Antifolates
- 1947: Kinetic Isotope Effects
- 1947: Photosynthesis
- 1948: Donora Death Fog
- 1949: Catalytic Reforming
- 1949: Molecular Disease
- 1949: Nonclassical Ion Controversy
- 1950: Conformational Analysis
- 1950: Cortisone
- 1950: Rotary Evaporator
- 1951: Sanger Sequencing
- 1951: The Pill
- 1951: Alpha-Helix and Beta-Sheet
- 1951: Ferrocene
- 1951: Transuranic Elements
- 1952: Gas Chromatography
- 1952: Miller-Urey Experiment
- 1952: Zone Refining
- 1952: Thallium Poisoning
- 1953: DNA's Structure
- 1953: Synthetic Diamond
- 1955: Electrophoresis
- 1956: The Hottest Flame
- 1957: Luciferin
- 1958: DNA Replication
- 1960: Thalidomide
- 1960: Resolution and Chiral Chromatography
- 1961: NMR
- 1962: Green Fluorescent Protein
- 1962: Noble Gas Compounds
- 1962: Isoamyl Acetate and Esters
- 1963: Ziegler-Natta Catalysis
- 1963: Merrifield Synthesis
- 1963: Dipolar Cycloadditions
- 1964: Kevlar®
- 1965: Protein Crystallography
- 1965: Cisplatin
- 1965: Lead Contamination
- 1965: Methane Hydrate
- 1965: Woodward-Hoffman Rules
- 1966: Polywater
- 1967: HPLC
- 1968: BZ Reaction
- 1969: Murchison Meteorite
- 1969: Gore-Tex®
- 1970: Carbon Dioxide Scrubbing
- 1970: Computational Chemistry
- 1970: Glyphosate
- 1971: Reverse-Phase Chromatography
- 1972: Rapamycin
- 1973: B12: Synthesis
- 1974: CFCs and the Ozone Layer
- 1975: Enzyme Stereochemistry
- 1976: PET Imaging
- 1977: Nozaki Coupling
- 1979: Tholin
- 1980: Iridium Impact Hypothesis
- 1982: Unnatural Products
- 1982: MPTP
- 1983: Polymerase Chain Reaction
- 1984: Electrospray LC/MS
- 1984: AZT and Antiretrovirals
- 1984: Quasicrystals
- 1984: Bhopal Disaster
- 1985: Fullerenes
- 1985: MALDI
- 1988: Modern Drug Discovery
- 1988: PEPCON®: Explosion
- 1989: Taxol®
- 1991: Carbon Nanotubes
- 1994: Palytoxin
- 1997: Coordination Frameworks
- 1998: Recrystallization and Polymorphs
- 2001: Click Triazoles
- 2004: Graphene
- 2005: Shikimic Acid Shortage
- 2005: Olefin Metathesis
- 2006: Flow Chemistry
- 2006: Isotopic Distribution
- 2009: Acetonitrile
- 2010: Engineered Enzymes
- 2010: Metal-Catalyzed Couplings
- 2013: Single-Molecule Images
- 2025: Hydrogen Storage
- 2030: Artificial Photosynthesis
- Notes and Further Reading
- Image Credits
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