Sciencebase visitors commonly search the site for specific chemicals they’re interested in.
Anyway, yesterday someone was looking for 2,4,6-tri(2-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine, so I did a quick search myself to see where the interest in this compound lay. Lots of search results came back, but one in particular caught my eye, this claw-like molecule is apparently a “cheating agent”, at least according to a patent that came up on an esp@cenet search. Now, unless the compound in question has gained some novel yet devious physiological properties, I’d have to assume they missed the “l” and that it’s actually a chelating agent that can grab on to metal ions with more than one of its own items with a claw-like grip, in fact. I could be wrong…