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Chemistry World December 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Surfing Web2O The rapid evolution of the world wide web is creating fresh opportunities - and challenges - for chemistry. |
Chemistry World January 6, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Greener route to carboxylic acids Chemists in Israel have developed a new way to oxidize primary alcohols to carboxylic acids, using water as both the reaction solvent and the source of oxygen. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Death of a reagent Anyone who's been practicing organic chemistry for a while can think back to reactions and reagents that were once in far wider use than they are today. |
Chemistry World January 7, 2010 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Chemists slam Science paper A paper published in the prestigious journal Science has caused a commotion in the chemistry community, with the synthetic processes discussed in the paper dismissed as nonsense and accusations of a failure in Science's peer review system. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2013 Emma Eley |
Synthesis by sunlight Sustainable oxidation reactions can be performed with inexpensive and readily available photovoltaic cells |
Chemistry World February 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Computers Learn Chemistry Chemists who trawl through the thousands of chemistry papers published every month must wish their computers could do the job for them. Well, maybe one day they will. |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
Reactive Reports Issue 71 David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Sun Rises in the East Interview with graduate student Weixiang Sun on constructing nanoscale materials from the bottom up. |
Chemistry World July 9, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
'Molecular cobra' turns C-H to C=C A reagent developed by US chemists can selectively introduce synthetically useful C=C double bonds into unactivated carbon chains, guided by an activating group attached to a nearby oxygen or nitrogen atom. |
Chemistry World March 22, 2012 Ross McLaren |
Back to the future: old reactions to help the new Researchers from the US have delved into the history of organic chemistry to help chemists better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule. |
Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley |
A Chemist's Thoughts on Computational Power and the Future of 'The Chemical Web' Interview with Steven Bachrach, a chemist with a flare for physics. |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Karl Collins |
An 'Aye' for details Today, using methods developed by masters of their trade, the modern greats of total synthesis demonstrate that almost any molecule can be prepared given time and effort. |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Column: Bench Monkey Dylan Stiles touches on the 299 ways to convert an alcohol to an aldehyde or ketone |
Chemistry World November 25, 2014 James Urquhart |
Nanomolar chemistry enables 1500 experiments in a single day Chemists have conducted over 1500 chemistry experiments in under a day thanks to a miniaturized, high throughput automation platform they developed for identifying how synthetic molecules react under various conditions. |
Reactive Reports Issue 51 David Bradley |
Jean-Claude Bradley Drexel University and Blogmaster of Usefulchem.Blogspot.Com This chemist is the creator of a fascinating blog (Web log) called UsefulChem, which aims to bring important and global problems to the attention of the wider chemical community in the hope of finding chemistry-based solutions. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access for Chemistry The team that developed BioMed Central, an open access publishing website, has launched a chemistry version called Chemistry Central. |
Chemistry World February 22, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Rhodium Fast Tracks Route to Lactones Chemists in Canada have developed an efficient new way to make lactones, chemical components of many natural products and drugs. |
Chemistry World February 2008 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Cast a skeptical eye over new ideas in chemistry. |
Chemistry World June 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey This PhD student takes an organic chemist's tour around the periodic table. |
Chemistry World February 2012 |
Column: In the pipeline Every lab should have a common working language (presumably that of the country where it's located), and it should be the responsibility of every person in it to be able to at least get along with its basic vocabulary. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Chemistry dominates list of China's most influential papers The Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award recognized a total of 24 key journal articles - including seven chemistry papers and two from the material sciences - for their outstanding contribution to international R&D. |
Reactive Reports Issue 62 David Bradley |
Robert Parker The appointed Managing Director of Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing discusses the future of chemistry publishing |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Dick Wife An interview with the chemical IT scientist and co-founder of SORD, a scientific publishing company that seeks to solve the problem of organizing the myriad of undocumented chemistry and the chaotic mess of the commercial database. |
Chemistry World September 28, 2015 Karl Collins |
A witches' brew for trifluoromethylation Trifluoromethylating phenols is one example of a reaction that would be incredibly useful when attempting to tune the chemical and biological properties of molecules for pharmaceutical and agrochemical research. |
Chemistry World April 10, 2008 Mark Peplow |
'Pot-in-a-Pot' Technique Makes Impossible Cascade Reactions Easy A simple technique that nests a series of reaction vessels could help chemists avoid the tedium and expense of purifying organic compounds after each step of a long synthesis. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
Reactive Reports November 2005 David Bradley |
Peter Murray-Rust An interview with the scientific software developer, originally a crystallographer with a DPhil from Oxford, on how he is now helping to establish novel software and Web technologies for chemists and other scientists underpinned by the concept of open source. |
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Alexander Archibald |
Chemistry in the atmosphere The Mechanisms of Atmospheric Oxidation of the Oxygenates by Calvert et al. is the fourth in a series dedicated to detailing the mechanisms of oxidation of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Engineering serendipity At this stage in the world of organic chemistry, you'd have to think that many of the great reactions that can be stumbled across with known reagents have probably been found. |
Chemistry World September 3, 2013 Patrick Walter |
With great blogging power... comes great responsibility The online chemistry community has recently been abuzz with talk of fraud, unethical dealings and dodgy data. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2014 Karl Collins |
Organic chemistry: a mechanistic approach Aimed at undergraduate chemistry students, this relatively succinct text begins with the fundamentals of molecular structure and introduces the concept of molecular orbitals early. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Nobel laureates appeal for open access In an open letter to United States lawmakers, 41 Nobel laureates endorse the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 for open access publishing |
Reactive Reports Issue 45 |
Star Picks Chemistry Web sites: Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources... Doing Chemistry... Chemistry Question... |
Chemistry World November 8, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
First Mg(I) Complex Made Chemists have created the first stable magnesium(I) compounds, a breakthrough for a metal whose chemistry is ruled by the oxidation state. |
Chemistry World March 10, 2006 |
Dual Organometallics Enhance Zinc Reactivity Chemists have synthesised organometallic compounds that enable zinc to participate in directed metalation of organic substrates. |
Chemistry World March 16, 2015 Andy Extance |
Data falsification hits polymer mechanochemistry papers Questions over the data for claims of mechanical deconstruction of a 1,2,3-triazole has lead to a retraction in Science |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Bryan Vickery, Chemistry Central Having ruined too many pairs of jeans, this chemist opted for a desk job instead of a bench job. He is currently Publisher at BioMed Central with special interest in Chemistry Central. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2011 Patrick Walter |
Chemists Vent Anger at Funding Body in Letters to UK Government UK chemists are in open revolt over administrative interference in their field by the main grant funder. |
Chemistry World March 20, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Is Your Lab Ready to go Veggie? In a recently published review article, Geoffrey Cordell demonstrates that the greengrocer's could be an unexpected goldmine of sustainable, cheap reagents that would benefit chemistry in developing countries. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2011 Joanne Thomson |
Hot Chemistry Temperature played a crucial role in David MacMillan's decision to study chemistry. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Chemistry World September 4, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Light in the Lab We organic chemists do terrible things to our molecules. How about dissolving the starting materials up in a flask, shining a light into the mixture and coming back later to find it transformed into your product? That's photochemistry. |
Chemistry World December 4, 2009 James Urquhart |
Easier ester synthesis Researchers in the US have shown how oxygen-coated gold nanoparticles can selectively oxidise a variety of alcohols and aldehydes. |
Chemistry World May 2012 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Hopeanol and hopeahainol A |
Science News October 27, 2007 |
Science Safari: Chemistry--Weird and Otherwise Visit this computational chemist's blog to learn the who, what, when, where, and why of chemistry. |
Chemistry World July 16, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access Chemical Science will be free to access from January 2015, and author fees for publishing in the journal will be suspended until 2017. |
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Derek Lowe |
A precision instrument? How much do medicinal chemists and their biology colleagues really trust each other's data? In the end, they have to, because drug discovery is a team sport. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2012 |
Chemistry in Evolution In "Evolution's Destiny," the authors explore the role of chemistry in evolution, and in particular the changing role of inorganic elements in the evolution of the ecosystem. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2012 Patrick Walter |
RSC acquires rights to Merck Index The Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired the rights to the 'bible' of chemistry, the Merck Index, familiar around the world to medicinal chemists and drug discovery scientists. |
Chemistry World August 20, 2008 |
Gold's Magic Number A new gold catalyst developed by UK chemists can catalyse hydrocarbon oxidation, using O 2 as the only oxidant. But catalyst particle size is critical - above 2nm diameter, the catalyst loses all activity. |