BarrAnsClass.com
Title
Richard Barrans’s web site
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Richard Barrans, Jr.
- Despite my public schooling, I have been interested in science for as long as I can remember. I attended Johns Hopkins University for undergraduate school. I did research there for one year for professor Reuben Hwu, a synthetic organic chemist now at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Although I was already hooked on chemistry when I started, that project would have done the trick if I weren’t. I studied the selectivity of reductions by calcium metal dissolved in liquid ammonia. That reaction involves lots of the features that make bench chemistry fun: foul smell (ammonia), exotic glassware (dry ice condenser to keep the ammonia liquid), pretty colors (active metals make a deep blue solution in ammonia), and exotic substances (calcium metal reacts with water; liquid ammonia and dry ice do not exist at room temperature).
Languages
English
