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Chemistry World February 21, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Esters Made Easy with Indium Indium is the basis of a novel catalyst designed to make useful cyclic esters. This catalyst could greatly simplify the production of chiral dihydropyranones, important structural elements in many natural products and pharmaceuticals.
Chemistry World July 26, 2007 Tom Westgate	Counterion Does the Twist US chemists have achieved a breakthrough in the design of catalysts that selectively produce chiral compounds.
Chemistry World November 27, 2009 Simon Hadlington	A simple way to join an olefin to an arene Chemists in the US have developed a simple and effective way to carry out a key class of reaction in organic synthesis - the bolting an olefin to an aromatic ring.
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Chemistry World April 19, 2009 Hayley Birch	Chiral metals shape up for catalysis Dutch and Israeli scientists have found a way to induce the chirality usually only found in organic materials in palladium.
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Andy Extance	Catalyst duo exerts powerful stereocontrol Chemists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, have teamed chiral catalysts in pairs to selectively drive a reaction towards desired stereoisomeric products with high selectivity.
Chemistry World October 16, 2015 Philippa Matthews	One pot recipe for incompatible catalytic transformations Researchers from the US have demonstrated a new catalyst support structure allowing two incompatible catalysts to work in tandem.
Chemistry World November 17, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Catalyst flexes for extra control US chemists have developed a new type of catalyst capable of exerting high stereochemical control over olefin metathesis reactions
Chemistry World September 6, 2006 Michael Gross	Selective Shortcut Chemists have developed a simple catalyst that speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in many complex syntheses.
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Chemistry World December 3, 2014 Cally Haynes	One rotaxane, two catalytic stories A two-site supramolecular catalyst that can be programmed to mediate different reactions depending on its conformation has been designed by researchers in the UK.
Chemistry World August 7, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Possible Origin of Chirality in the Rna World Given a tiny push one way or the other, simple racemic precursors can lead to the chiral building blocks of RNA using a combination of chemical and physical factors.
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Chemistry World March 2, 2007 Philip Ball	Giving Life a Hand Why are proteins left-handed and nucleic acids right-handed? Once offered only a few sketchy theories, scientists have found more alternatives for creating homochirality.
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Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Emma Eley	Sustainable iron catalyst for clean hydrogenation An international team of chemists has reported a clean and green way to perform one of the most important industrial reactions for pharmaceutical and petrochemical synthesis.
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Chemistry World December 23, 2015 Karl Collins	Scratching chiral surfaces There are numerous challenges to developing reactions that exploit chiral surfaces, or employ molecular modifiers (ligands) to create a chiral surface environment and control the stereoselectivity of a transformation.
Chemistry World April 18, 2012 Elinor Richards	Homogeneous Catalyst Recovery Made Easier Scientists have now found a way to recover homogeneous catalysts at the end of a chemical reaction that doesn't suffer from the slow reaction rates that affect current catalyst recovery systems.
Chemistry World October 18, 2011 Steve Down	Cofactor Control of Catalysis Enantioselectivity Scientists have used cofactors to control the enantioselectivity of supramolecular transition metal catalysts, enabling the asymmetric hydrogenation of a series of acrylates and related compounds with remarkably high selectivities.
Chemistry World June 10, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	A green and salty chiral catalyst An efficient, chiral, salt-based hypervalent iodine catalyst has been discovered by Japanese chemists that could replace toxic metal catalysts without generating the waste or explosion risks associated with hypervalent organo-iodine complexes.
Chemistry World July 14, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Multicomponent reactions step up a gear Dutch chemists have taken multicomponent reactions to the next level, combining a total of eight different starting materials in a single flask, bringing together three different multicomponent reactions and making nine new bonds in a single step.
Chemistry World September 4, 2008 Fred Campbell	Two catalysts better than one US researchers have cracked a long standing problem in chemical synthesis - the catalytic alpha-alkylation of aldehydes - by combining two catalysts in one pot.
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.
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Chemistry World May 9, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Iron catalyst breaks the mold An iron catalyst that is not only greener than many of its precious metal competitors, but also catalyses reactions that they can't, could open new avenues in transition metal catalysis, say Chinese researchers.
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Chemistry World June 18, 2014 Michael Parkin	Separation by levitation A team in the US has shown that enantiopure and racemic crystals can be separated by magnetic levitation.
Chemistry World February 11, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Oxidation Goes Green A new 'green' strategy for making useful nitrogen-based chemicals has been announced by chemists in the UK.
Chemistry World February 20, 2012 James Urquhart	Unusual kinetics of catalyst revealed US researchers have elucidated the unusual reaction kinetics of C-H activation by the palladium(II) catalyst (Pd(OAc) 2).
Chemistry World June 13, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Asymmetric ketone catalysis gets pharma-scale makeover An asymmetric catalysis reaction limited to laboratory syntheses has received a makeover that could see it used on a large scale by drug-makers.
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 James Urquhart	Simple route to add nitrogen to drugs US researchers have discovered a simple one-pot, scaleable way to synthesize aziridines -- three-membered rings that are important building blocks for introducing nitrogen into more complex molecules, including medicinal drugs.
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Chemistry World April 6, 2009 Nina Notman	Torn catalysts help polymers heal themselves Catalysts that are activated by a mechanical force tearing them in two have been designed by Dutch scientists.
Chemistry World March 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington	New synthesis for chiral anticancer compound The promising anticancer compound nutlin-3 is likely to become more widely available to researchers thanks to a new synthetic protocol developed by US chemists.
Chemistry World November 12, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Microscope Reveals Catalyst Secrets A promising technique for watching catalysts in action could provide new insights into how they work, report scientists in the Netherlands.
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Chemistry World December 14, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Pico-gold clusters break catalysis record Chemists in Spain have shown that small clusters of gold atoms are excellent inorganic catalysts with record-breaking efficiency.
Chemistry World February 21, 2007 Tom Westgate	Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules.
Chemistry World September 9, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	High-throughput catalyst screening for the masses Using nothing more than the standard chemistry lab equipment, researchers in the US have successfully turned the discovery of new catalytic reactions into a high-throughput process.
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 September 10, 2014 Andy Extance	'Assembly line' sculpts carbon chains UK chemists have devised a precise process for building carbon chains a link at a time that packs in more side groups than biologically-derived molecules can.
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