Sciencebase visitors commonly search the site for specific chemicals they’re interested in. Of course, I’d always recommend hoping over to Chemspy.com for structures, MSDS and other information. You can search PubChem, ChemFinder, ChemRefer, ChemIndustry and several other chem sites via the ChemSpy toolbox (bottom right, homepage, enter your keywords and click the database of choice)
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…