One of the first reactions that students learn in college-level organic chemistry is hydrochlorination—adding hydrogen chloride to a carbon-carbon double or triple bond. The classic textbook version ...

In conjunction with National Drinking Water Week, the Chlorine Chemistry Council (CCC) introduced a new interactive tool, the Chlorine Tree (http://www.chlorinetree ...

Get a group of scientists together and mention the word "chlorine" and watch the sparks start to fly. That's exactly what happened at a forum on a different, but related, topic of sustainability, ...

Chlorine plays an essential part in daily life, from keeping pools clean to preserving food. Now, a team of chemists developed a more environmentally friendly way to integrate chlorine into chemical ...

Standard methods of predicting air pollution don’t take atmospheric chlorine into account, but the chemical could be responsible for 10 percent or more of daily ozone production in local air, research ...

AkzoNobel and Vinnolit are both expanding capacity in Germany for chlorine-based chemicals. AkzoNobel recently replaced mercury-cell chlorine production at its site in Frankfurt with more modern ...