Being inexpensively available and chemically benign, stearic acid finds many niche applications.
Throughout the 1990s and 1st decade of the 21st century, many home computer systems were available inexpensively at garage sales and on eBay.
Although inexpensively available, nitromethane can be prepared in other methods that are of instructional value.
Although inexpensively available, DMAD is prepared today as it was originally.
Search and rescue insurance is available inexpensively in Switzerland and you may purchase it at many Swiss post offices.
TsCl is inexpensively available for laboratory use.
Carvone is available inexpensively in both enantiomerically pure forms, making it an attractive starting material for the asymmetric total synthesis of natural products.
Coil springs in various sizes and rates are available inexpensively.
A further advantage of this process is that d-menthol becomes inexpensively available for use as a chiral auxiliary, along with the more usual l-antipode.
These are readily and inexpensively available from most chemical suppliers - otherwise you can make your own, but it just makes things a bit more time consuming.