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June 16, 2011 |
Forming the First Sugars with Formose Reactions Hydrothermal synthesis could provide greener synthesis methods as well as information about the origin of life.   |
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November 3, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple? |
Chemistry World
January 17, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Sugars synthesised with help of promiscuous enzyme European researchers have discovered a new way to make synthetically elusive sugar molecules that could lead to novel vaccine candidates and other medically important compounds. |
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
April 29, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Catalyst challenges microbes' supremacy An inorganic catalyst could challenge microbial fermentation of sugars into lactic acid derivatives to provide feedstocks for renewable biodegradeable plastics and green solvent and chemical production. |
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
April 4, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
A solution to fluoronium riddle The first evidence for hypervalent fluorine cations, or fluoronium ions, in solution has been found by US chemists. |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Dried lake bed on Mars 'could have supported life' New chemical analysis by the Mars rover Curiosity suggests that Mars was once more hospitable to life. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Bio-petroleum made from sugars James Dumesic's team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to convert simple sugars into hydrocarbons that could be blended to make vehicle fuels that are identical to the ones we use today. |
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
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
November 18, 2010
Akshat Rathi |
Cellulose used to make smart window materials Using nanocrystalline cellulose from wood pulp, Canadian researchers have for the first time prepared mesoporous chiral nematic structured silica materials that may have potential as tuneable reflective filters in smart windows |
Chemistry World
September 9, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Sugaring the Pill Researchers in the US have made a key advance in efforts to bolt sugar molecules onto natural products in the search for new drugs. |
Technology Research News
July 28, 2004 |
Chemistry yields DNA fossils The technique could be used to make nanoscale containers, wires, patterns, and chemical catalysts. |
Food Processing
July 2006
Frances Katz |
More than one sugar Removing calories, and even the sweetness, from sugar creates new product formulation possibilities. |
Chemistry World
November 3, 2011
Erica Wise |
A Model for the Single Chirality of Life The boiling solutions in prebiotic hot springs could shed light on the emergence of a single chiral form of biomolecules in nature, say Spanish scientists. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2009
Nina Notman |
Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains. |
Geotimes
July 2004
Sara Pratt |
Core Compositions Scientists are working to explain the differences in composition between Earth and Mars. |
Chemistry World
May 15, 2012
Harriet Brewerton |
Chiral Confusion Scientists in Israel have shown that non-biological chiral crystals are much more abundant than previously thought and their findings could clear up a possible confusion over the term 'chiral'. |
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. |
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