General anaesthesia has come so far, and yet not. Back in the day, we used to use lipophilic compounds like diethyl ether and alkyl halides like chloroform, and now we use...well, lipophilic alkyl halides like desflurane. Fortunately, desflurane doesn't cause so many toxic effects, due largely to the wonderful relative inertness of the C-F bond.
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Dear MotD-editor,
thanx for your nice blog. What would I need to do to convince you to add some simple markup to allow Chemical blogspace [1] pick up the molecules you blog about daily? Would autogeneration of certain properties [2] be interesting as favor in return? Or maybe a widget with a list of other blogs/items that talk about this molecule?
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Hi MoTD,
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