Base (chemistry) Base (chemistry) In chemistry, bases are substances that, in aqueous solution, release hydroxide (OH) ions, are slippery to the touch, can taste bitter if an alkali, change the color of indicators (e.g., turn red litmus paper blue), react with acids to form salts, promote certain chemical reactions (base catalysis), accept protons from any proton donor or contain completely or partially displaceable OH ions. Examples of bases are the hydroxides of the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals (NaOH, Ca(OH), etc., see alkali hydroxide and alkaline earth hydroxide). These particular substances produce hydroxide ions (OH) in aqueous solutions, and are
Alexander Butlerov Chemistry Institute chemistry of nanomaterials, pharmaceutical chemistry. Proposed model and physio-chemical basis of self-assembly of nanoscale of hyperbranched polymers, set new approaches to understanding the mechanisms of gene transfection and targeted drug delivery. The Department works at the intersection of organic chemistry (chemistry of natural products, chemistry of macrocyclic compounds, chemistry of elementorganic compounds), supramolecular chemistry (solution and self-process chemistry) and molecular biology.The head of the Department is Professor Igor S. Antipin, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science, Doctor of Chemistry. The Department conducts research in the following fields: In 2012 the joint Russian-French master's degree program in chemoinformatics