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Chemistry World
October 22, 2008
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A greener route to amines Researchers based in Israel have developed an easier way to make troublesome primary amines, using a new ruthenium catalyst.   |
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
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 1, 2014
Karl Collins |
Reduced to clear Reducing amides to primary alcohols may instinctively seem like a simple functional group transformation. But as undergraduate chemists soon find out, this unfortunately isn't the case. |
Chemistry World
September 2011
Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Corey Stephenson of Boston University is an expert a type of reaction called photochemical reduction-oxidation. He has charmed photons into performing many chemical tricks, but one is a photoredox dehalogenation using blue light and a ruthenium bipyridyl catalyst. |
Chemistry World
December 7, 2011
Anne Horan |
Catalyst clears up corrosion UK scientists have developed a cheap way of cleaning tarnished metals in industry to prevent corrosion using a UV activated photocatalyst ink. The dirty surface can then simply be washed away with water. |
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
July 13, 2006
Michael Gross |
Catalyst Cracks Tough Cellulose Metal catalysts can break down cellulose into simple sugar alcohols, chemists have found, marking an important step in the quest to produce green fuels from renewable resources. |
Chemistry World
July 8, 2013
Philip Ball |
Solvent traffic responsible for electron gridlock Electron transfer is common in biochemistry, electrochemistry and redox reactions, but isn't fully understood. New research now shows that the rate at which an electron leaves its parent atom may be at the mercy of the solvent. |
Chemistry World
October 21, 2012
Nina Notman |
Haber-Bosch power consumption slashed A new type of ruthenium catalyst could reduce the power consumption of ammonia production, claim Japanese scientists. |
