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Chemistry World June 19, 2013 John Hayward |
Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2015 James Morey |
Organic synthesis: state of the art -- 2011--2013 This book would be ideal for those needing to be on top of the literature in synthetic organic chemistry, but who don't have the time to read the ever-increasing body of pertinent articles. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Name reactions: how does the label stick? Some of these names go back to the 19th century, and many more of them come from the first decades of the 20th. Once in a while, I wonder if the tradition is dying out. Are we still naming chemical reactions after their discoverers? |
Information Today April 19, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Elsevier Launches Referex Engineering... ARTstor to Launch Digital Image Resource... Wiley Launches Organic Reactions Database... |
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. |
Information Today July 2, 2015 |
Thieme Chemistry Updates Synthetic Organic Chemistry Resource Thieme Chemistry rolled out the newest release of its Science of Synthesis 4.1, which is a full-text resource for methods and experimental procedures in synthetic organic chemistry. |
Chemistry World February 6, 2014 Simon Lewis |
Design and strategy in organic synthesis In this comprehensive treatise by Hanessian and others, a wide range of total syntheses from many different laboratories is used to exemplify different approaches to synthetic design. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest EasyAsk Enhances Enterprise Search Solution... Britannica Offers Original Sources for Licensing... New Reactions Database from Wiley... |
Chemistry World December 6, 2012 John Hayward |
Student inspiration The second edition of Organic Chemistry by Clayden and others, has undergone a substantial overhaul and yet still retains the features that made it quite so attractive to students in the first place. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2012 Duncan Browne |
Chemistry on your iPhone Sanros: Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis by Laszlo Kurti and Barbara Czako, a favorite organic synthesis textbook, is now available as an iPhone app. |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Iain Smellie |
Organic chemistry principles in context: a story telling historical approach Organic Chemistry Principles in Context by Mark Green joins a large selection of excellent textbooks currently available to organic chemistry students. |
Chemistry World April 24, 2012 David Smith |
Skills for students Practical Skills in Chemistry, by John Dean could offer any undergraduate a way to develop all of the skills of a fine chemist. |
Chemistry World September 23, 2013 Karl Collins |
The portable chemist's consultant The portable chemist's consultant from Phil Baran's laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute in California challenges the concept of a 'textbook' by providing a progressive, multimedia textbook application. This is the future of scientific textbooks. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Under pressure Someone interviewing for a synthetic chemistry position had better know his or her organic chemistry. It's fair to ask questions that will make sure of that. But does a candidate need to know the curly-arrow details of reactions that they'll never run? |
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 October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Information Today May 3, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest H.W. Wilson Expands Biography Reference Bank... FIZ Karlsruhe Enhances Conference Information Service... Wiley Launches Organic Reactions Database... |
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. |
Information Today December 16, 2010 |
CAS Introduces SciFinder Enhancements The enhancements will accelerate researchers' workflow and are especially valuable for synthetic chemists and other researchers who are engaged in lab preparations and synthesis planning. |
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 25, 2013 Derek Lowe |
What's the use? Work that claims to be useful in chemistry often ends up teetering on the edges of the Canyons of Triviality or Decadence. |
Science News June 16, 2007 |
Science Safari: The Green Guide National Geographic's Green Guide offers objective information and practical advice to consumers on how to lead a greener life. |
Chemistry World December 14, 2012 Gan Shermer |
Organic chemistry Textbook of Organic Chemistry by C. Pillai is aimed at undergraduate chemistry students who already have a basic knowledge of organic chemistry. |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline Problems develop when there are too few workhorse reactions, which may well generate compounds that are too similar to each other. Are we at that stage now? |
Chemistry World March 20, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Surfactants Help Reactions Work in Water Scientists have discovered a surfactant that allows the catalytic organic reactions commonly used to assemble organic structures such as drug molecules to be run in water. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Natural products can be ridiculously complicated. The sheer difficulty of the enterprise is traditionally what made pharmaceutical companies hire people who had worked in total synthesis. But, is total synthesis research still worth the effort? |
Chemistry World November 2007 |
Book Reviews A review of books on: good clinical & laboratory practices, green chemistry, environmental chemistry, organic reactions in water, universal asymmetry, and molecular models for fluids. |
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 2010 |
Carbon Couplers Take the Prize Three giants of organic chemistry, who pioneered palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions, have shared this year's Nobel prize. |
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 October 1, 2013 Eleanor Merritt |
New software for creating green solvents Scientists in France have developed a computer-assisted organic synthesis program to design sustainable solvents from bio-based building blocks. |
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 February 20, 2013 Amy Middleton-Gear |
Ohmic heating for efficient green synthesis Portuguese scientists have developed a new ohmic-heating reactor for organic syntheses on water, or chemistry using an aqueous suspension of the reactants. |
Chemistry World November 12, 2014 Iain A Smellie |
Organic chemistry: structure, mechanism and synthesis This book contains all the key concepts one would expect in a good core organic chemistry textbook. The content also extends towards biochemistry and molecular biology. |
Chemistry World September 18, 2015 Henry Rzepa |
Pericyclic reactions The second edition of Pericyclic reactions by Ian Fleming comes at a timely moment -- the 50th anniversary of Robert Woodward and Roald Hoffmann's seminal text on the stereochemistry of electrocyclic reactions. |
Chemistry World December 5, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Chemical reactions in hot water Chinese and Japanese chemists have highlighted hot water's ability to promote unexpected reactions without any other reagents or catalysts. The work should expand our understanding of how to harness the physicochemical properties of water to potentially replace more complex reagents and catalysts. |
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 June 2011 |
Column: Totally Synthetic I've never heard of the Polonovski-Potier reaction, the keystone of a remarkable synthesis by a team led by Tohru Fukuyama at the University of Tokyo, Japan. |
Chemistry World October 10, 2010 Andy Extance |
DNA strides into organic synthesis US scientists have used a DNA walker to synthesise an organic molecule in a series of steps, without intervention, for the first time. |
Chemistry World October 6, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Trio share Nobel for palladium-catalysed cross-coupling Richard Heck of the University of Delaware in Newark, US, Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue University, US, and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University in Japan, independently developed palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions as a way to forge new carbon-carbon bonds with precision |
Chemistry World July 23, 2015 Richard Massey |
Photoredox catalysis mechanisms seen in new light A debate over whether photoredox-catalyzed reactions proceed via chain processes may now be settled, thanks to new mechanistic insight brought to light by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World December 2010 |
A structure-based community for chemists ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, has delivered an online environment for the community to both deposit their data as well as curate and annotate existing content on the database. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Elinor Richards |
Magical microwaves Microwaves have been used to promote organic reactions since the 1980s and they can lead to higher yields and shorter reaction times than conventional heating, but why? |
Chemistry World January 2012 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic What a Japanese team demonstrates in this synthesis of dragmacidin D is the state of the art, uniting all the key fragments using C-H bond couplings. |
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 August 22, 2012 Philip Ball |
The automatic chemist Bartosz Grzybowski of Northwestern University -- who has already established himself as one of our most inventive chemists -- has unveiled a 'chemo-informatic' scheme, Chematica, that can stake a reasonable claim to being paradigm-changing. |
Chemistry World May 8, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Keep stirring that Suzuki The shape of your reaction vessel can influence the behavior of organotrifluoroborate compounds in Suzuki cross-coupling reactions, say chemists in the UK. |
Chemistry World February 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Forcing stereoselectivity on reactive cations Chemists in the US have devised a dual catalyst strategy to tame the highly reactive iminium ion to give a high degree of stereochemical control over subsequent reactions of the ion. |
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. |