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Chemistry World June 24, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Aryl rings get a fluorine fix A mild and effective method for coupling trifluoromethyl groups on to aryl rings has been developed by US chemists. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2015 David Bradley |
Copper click chemistry mechanism unravelled Both the mono- and bis-copper pathways are active in the CuAAC reaction, but the latter is kinetically favored. |
Chemistry World March 19, 2009 Manisha Lalloo |
Copper catalysts give meta aromatics UK Researchers have discovered that, simply by using a copper catalyst, they are able to perform tricky substitution reactions at a difficult position on benzene rings |
Chemistry World June 8, 2014 David Bradley |
Carbon--carbon couplings go 3D Chemists have devised a new stereospecific coupling reaction for electron-rich aromatics using secondary and tertiary boronic esters that works under mild conditions. |
Chemistry World August 14, 2014 Elisabeth Ratcliffe |
Photoredox route to medically-important heterocycles Researchers in the US have developed a new photo catalyzed coupling reaction that could provide a pathway to a huge number of biologically active compounds. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2015 Andy Extance |
Copper catalysis overcomes double bond trouble Some carbon-carbon double bonds seem too unreactive for synthetic use -- but that's just how chemists in the US are now exploiting them. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2011 Sarah Corcoran |
Unclogging the problems of flow chemistry US scientists have found a way to stop solid byproducts clogging channels in continuous flow reactors, a problem that has hampered their progress for use in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. |
Chemistry World December 16, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Radical experiment assesses interstellar nitrogen Radical reactions are challenging to measure at cold temperatures, but an international team of researchers have recently clocked the rate for atomic nitrogen and hydroxyl radicals at 56K. |
Chemistry World March 31, 2011 Mike Brown |
Electrifying polymers Scientists in the US and Italy have used electricity to control atom transfer radical polymerisation reactions, industrially significant reactions for producing plastics. |
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 October 12, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Chemistry Nobel laureate Richard Heck dies Richard Heck, the organic chemist who shared the 2010 chemistry Nobel prize with for developing palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions, has died aged 84. |
Chemistry World September 4, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Iron catalyst offers nitrogenase clues It is one of the most enduring mysteries in chemistry: how do certain bacteria fix nitrogen from the air? |
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. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Off-the-Peg Organic Synthesis Goes Commercial Chemists have created an efficient way to make small molecules by repeatedly using just one coupling reaction to clip together pre-prepared chemical fragments is going commercial. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
New method for aromatic coupling Chemists in Switzerland have developed a way to couple aromatic rings through the Friedel-Crafts mechanism - something many people would have believed impossible. |
Chemistry World November 2, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Do Carbyne Radicals Really Exist in Aqueous Solution? Carbyne radicals are ejected from molybdenum clusters in water and react together to make lots of organic molecules, including alkynes |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Chemistry World February 2, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Gold going it alone Spanish scientists have proved that gold alone can catalyse cross-coupling reactions following a claim made last year that palladium impurities in the gold are essential for the catalysis. |
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 September 24, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Copper Future for Solar Cells Rare ruthenium complexes that are a key component of dye-sensitized solar cells could be replaced by molecules based on copper. |
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 November 2007 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline Chemists are finally going with the flow. |
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? |
Chemistry World January 15, 2010 Kate McAlpine |
Capturing carbon with copper A team of researchers in the Netherlands have devised a trap that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. |
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 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 July 25, 2014 Polly Wilson |
Uranium complexes unlock feedstock potential of carbon dioxide European scientists have synthesized uranium complexes that take them a step closer to producing commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide. |
Chemistry World July 1, 2012 Paul Docherty |
Vincorine Cage-structured natural products are some of the most appealing (if perhaps not appetising) targets for organic chemists -- perhaps due to their obvious intricacy of form, but also because of their structural rigidity. |
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? |
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 |
Colourful Research Jeremy Smith talks about why choosing inorganic chemistry was a case of columns versus color. |
Reactive Reports Issue 31 David Bradley |
Tired of old tires A more environmentally friendly car tire made from silica and rubber has low rolling resistance and uses five percent less fuel than standard tires. The hard part is getting silica and rubber to mix. |