CHEM 1AL Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Complementary Colors, Sulfide, Drug Design

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 1AL
• Professor: Saykally Richard

Document Summary

Identification of unknown solutions: a matrix approach to chemical. This experiment illustrates some of the common types of reactions that can occur when chemicals in aqueous solutions are mixed. You will be given 8 solutions identified only by a letter code that is different for each student. This means that literally thousands of chemical reactions have to be carried out in order to test a new type of molecule or compound for the desired effects. These reactions are very labor-intensive, and constitute the major cost of developing new types of cancer drugs, for example. It is, therefore, not surprising that great effort is being expended in developing very efficient schemes for systematically carrying out and analyzing large numbers of chemical reactions. A brilliant approach to this problem was developed in 1991 by scientists at affymax inc (a palo alto biotech company).