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Chemistry World January 10, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Nitrenium hugs stabilize positively rare complexes Everyone knows that like charges repel one another. But unusual coordination compounds bearing cationic ligands bound to cationic metals have been prepared by scientists in Israel, opening up fresh opportunities for organic transformations. |
Chemistry World January 27, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Cracking carbon-carbon bonds Chemists in the US have discovered a tungsten complex that can break a strong carbon-carbon bond in an aromatic ring. |
Chemistry World February 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Molecule mimics molybdenum catalyst Chemists in the US have created a molecule that closely resembles the key active portion of molybdenum disulfide, an important solid industrial catalyst that shows promise for the generation of hydrogen from water. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals. |
Chemistry World October 22, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Carbenes catalyse metal-metal bonds in organometallics Chemists in the US have discovered a novel way to transform organometallic compounds so that new metal-metal bonds are created. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Hamish Crawford |
Crystal structures unpacked A researcher in the UK has shed new light on which interactions are important in the packing of crystal structures. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 Andy Extance |
Base metal catalysts strike hydrogenation gold Three teams have shown that chemists need not rely only on expensive and toxic precious metal catalysts for hydrogenation -- they've found complementary alternatives based on cheap, abundant and safer transition metals. |
Chemistry World March 10, 2006 |
Dual Organometallics Enhance Zinc Reactivity Chemists have synthesised organometallic compounds that enable zinc to participate in directed metalation of organic substrates. |
Chemistry World August 5, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Nitrogenase found to be a two-trick pony An enzyme whose job is to convert nitrogen gas to ammonia - a process known as nitrogen fixation - can also reduce carbon monoxide US researchers have discovered. |
Chemistry World May 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual. |
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 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 March 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Popcorn-like explosion of single crystals explained Chemists have created single crystals of metal coordination complexes that explode violently when exposed to UV light, leaping high into the air. |
Chemistry World June 5, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
The Attraction of Gold for Gold Researchers are unravelling some of the fundamental chemistry surrounding a key but poorly understood aspect of the coordination chemistry of gold -- the weak `aurophilic' interactions between adjacent atoms of Au(I) in organic complexes. |
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 March 19, 2012 James Mitchell Crow |
Nickel plays host to quickie xylene separation An efficient new way to separate isomers of xylene, a chemical feedstock derived from crude oil, could slash the time and energy required to purify this key intermediate. |
Chemistry World June 2, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Reactions in a crystal Crystals that can alter their composition without changing the structure of their solid lattice have been developed by US researchers. |
Chemistry World March 25, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Germanium-Oxygen Double Bond Takes Centre Stage The first compound with a germanium-oxygen double bond has been created by Japanese scientists. |
Chemistry World July 12, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Model Enzyme Attacks Alkyl Mercury US chemists have devised a molecular mimic for an enzyme that destroys toxic alkyl mercury pollutants. |
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Double bonding with silicon In a landmark for silicon chemistry, US researchers have reported the first stable silicon (0) compound to contain a silicon-silicon double bond. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2006 Michael Gross |
New Twists on Catalysis Chemists around the world have discovered several new twists to improve the performance of asymmetric catalysts in hydrogenation reactions. |
Chemistry World January 30, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Nanocrystals Get in Shape for Catalysis New research in fine tuning the shape and size of nanoparticles could lead to important advances in catalysis. |
Chemistry World August 14, 2012 Andy Extance |
Carbon clusters score lucky seven US and Chinese chemists say that they've calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication that would have a higher coordination number than any yet seen experimentally. |
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent Indian chemists have discovered a highly elastic but crystalline material made from caffeine. The crystals maintain their elasticity down to -100 C. |
Chemistry World May 8, 2015 Jennifer Newton |
Chemists snare 17-electron half-sandwich radical A team from Nanjing University in China has successfully synthesized and characterized the organometallic radical cation [(C 6Me 6)Cr(CO) 3] +. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
'Electronic glue' makes nanocrystals connect American chemists have developed an 'electronic glue' to link nanocrystals together - allowing groups of the crystals to be highly conductive. |
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 |
Colourful Research Jeremy Smith talks about why choosing inorganic chemistry was a case of columns versus color. |
Chemistry World August 28, 2015 Simon Higgins |
D-block chemistry Mark Winter's D-block chemistry, originally published as part of the Oxford chemistry primer series in 1995, and now revised and updated, is a good and approachable introduction to put this bewilderment in context. |
Chemistry World May 3, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
The Many Faces of Platinum Researchers in the U.S. and China have discovered a way to grow multi-faceted nanocrystals of platinum that have much higher catalytic activity than the conventional crystalline forms of the metal. |