Science Meets Art:C&EN's Chemistry in Pictures

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Crème brûlée blooms

The contents of this Erlenmeyer flask, forgotten in the back of a fume hood for a month, crystallized into a floral pattern. The crystallized molecule, 2-allylisoindoline-1,3dione, came from the ethyl acetate portion of an aqueous extraction that was part of a three-step synthesis. Paul Furuta, director of material development at Capacitor Sciences, performed the experiment and says the flask may contain a significant amount of the solvent dimethylformamide. "This might have contributed to the slow crystallization and interesting pattern." The final product of the synthesis is an advanced dielectric—an electrical insulator—for use in energy-storage capacitors.

盛开的焦糖布丁花

被遗忘在通风橱深处一个月后 , 这个爱伦美氏烧瓶里的物质 形成了花卉图案的结晶。结晶的分子是 2- 烯丙基异吲哚 -1,3二酮 , 来自于水萃取的乙酸乙酯部分 , 这一水萃取是三步合成 反应中的一步。电容器科学公司(Capacitor Sciences)材料 开发部总监 Paul Furuta 进行了该实验 。 他说 , 烧瓶中可能 含有大量的溶剂二甲基甲酰胺。“这或许导致了缓慢结晶并 形成了有趣图案。” 合成反应的最终产物是一种高性能介电 质,即电绝缘体,用于储能电容器。 Submitted by / 图片来源:Paul Furuta

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