{"id":423,"date":"2008-11-06T11:44:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/11\/06\/i_guess_thats_why_they_call_it_the_blues\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T11:44:14","slug":"i_guess_thats_why_they_call_it_the_blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/11\/06\/i_guess_thats_why_they_call_it_the_blues\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess that&#8217;s why they call it the blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting question posed on the Sceptical Chymist <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-tb.cgi\/6510\">last<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/10\/chemiotics_sherlock_holmes_and.html\">week<\/a>: is the cyclization reaction that makes the chromophore of green fluorescent protein a rare event or a common one; and how do we find out? <\/p>\n<p>\nIn return for bringing that question to the attention of my biochemical friends, I have a question for the chemists.<\/p>\n<p>\nIs Prussian Blue made from ferric chloride and potassium ferrocyanide, or <em>ferrous<\/em> chloride and potassium <em>ferricyanide<\/em>, or some unholy mixture of the two? Because I&#8217;m having a little local difficulty remembering and I&#8217;m not sure we have the right reagents in the lab to do the experiment myself. All I can recall at the moment is &#8216;hexacyanoferrate&#8217; which is the product. <\/p>\n<p>\nBefore you say anything, wikipedia is self-contradictory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting question posed on the Sceptical Chymist last week: is the cyclization reaction that makes the chromophore of green fluorescent protein a rare event or a common one; and how do we find out? In return for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/11\/06\/i_guess_thats_why_they_call_it_the_blues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}