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Chemistry World March 2011 |
Microwave chemistry - green or not? Microwave-assisted chemistry might not deserve its environmentally friendly reputation, argues Jonathan Moseley |
Chemistry World October 2, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Microwave effect ruled out Microwave reactions in silicon carbide vials - which are heated by microwaves but shield the contents from radiation - have confirmed that most of the benefits seen in microwave-assisted chemistry are purely due to heating |
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 July 22, 2013 Anthony King |
Microwave quarrel heats up A brouhaha over microwave heating in organic reactions has escalated after the two research groups involved penned barbed correspondences aimed at each other's approaches in Angewandte Chemie. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Flow Reactors Enter the Rapids Continuous flow chemistry's promise to shake up synthesis gathered momentum this month, with the first Uniqsis Flow Chemistry Symposium. |
Chemistry World November 2007 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline Chemists are finally going with the flow. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2014 Doris Dallinger |
Laboratory experiments using microwave heating Leadbeater and McGowan's book is designed as a textbook for the undergraduate laboratory, Laboratory experiments using microwave heating is a valuable addition to the range of microwave books available. |
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 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 January 11, 2013 Marie Cote |
Following her passion Veronique Gouverneur is professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK. She investigates fluorine chemistry and is working on developing novel synthetic methodologies for the preparation of fluorinated targets. |
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 September 14, 2012 Vibhuti Patel |
The road less travelled Professor Jayne Garno says people typically associate the synthesis of new molecules with chemistry, but it is also interesting to study how molecules bind to each other and how you can control surface binding. |
Chemistry World September 10, 2014 Anthony King |
Debate over microwave boost to reactions rumbles on Researchers at Florida State University report two new papers that support a microwave-specific heating effect. |
Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Keeping it Green Some chemistry enthusiastically labeled as green may be nothing of the kind, warn researchers who worry that mediocre -- if well-meaning -- science is damaging their subject. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 Amy Middleton-Gear |
Stirring microwave synthesis It is next to impossible to achieve good mixing with traditional magnetic stir bars in the cylindrical vessels used in microwave synthesis. So scientists in Austria have designed a new stir bar. |
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. |
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. |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2010 |
Lights, camera, action An interview with chemist Martyn Poliakoff, who is research professor of chemistry at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His main research interest is the application of supercritical fluids with a focus on green and sustainable chemistry. He is one of the |
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 July 31, 2012 Duncan Macquarrie |
Environmentally friendly teaching Green Organic Chemistry in Lecture and Laboratory edited by Andrew Dicks covers a wide range of key themes, ranging from the 12 principles of green chemistry via various different approaches to conventional synthetic procedures, waste management and more. |
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 November 16, 2012 Vibhuti Patel |
Keeping science in the family Robin McCarley is professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University, US. His research spans liposome systems, surface chemistry, polymer chemistry, nanoscience and bioanalytical/physical chemistry. |
Chemistry World October 2010 |
A renaissance in school chemistry John Holman, former director of the UK's National Science Learning Centre, is optimistic about the current state of chemistry education. But important caveats remain |
Chemistry World June 2007 |
Student Book Reviews Chemistry for CSI Fans... At the Heart of Molecular Biology... A Broad Vista of Chemistry...Rings Are Not Just for Carbons... etc. |
Chemistry World April 17, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Sanofi launches malaria drug production On 11 April, the Paris-based pharmaceutical company Sanofi officially launched a new production facility in Garessio, Italy, to make artemisinin -- the precursor to artemisinin-based combination therapies, the most effective drugs against the deadliest malaria parasite. |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
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 July 10, 2013 Karl Collins |
An 'Aye' for details Today, using methods developed by masters of their trade, the modern greats of total synthesis demonstrate that almost any molecule can be prepared given time and effort. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2011 Joanne Thomson |
Hot Chemistry Temperature played a crucial role in David MacMillan's decision to study chemistry. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad |
Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be. |
Chemistry World July 10, 2014 |
Emily Weiss: Tuneable illumination Research in the Weiss group looks at the fundamental physical chemistry of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots in both the solution and solid phase. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Chemistry dominates list of China's most influential papers The Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award recognized a total of 24 key journal articles - including seven chemistry papers and two from the material sciences - for their outstanding contribution to international R&D. |
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 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 7, 2014 Christopher Exley |
Bioinorganic chemistry This type of text was not available in the early days of bioinorganic chemistry and may now serve to fast track our understanding of the topic. |
Chemistry World December 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being. |
Reactive Reports Issue 45 |
Star Picks Chemistry Web sites: Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources... Doing Chemistry... Chemistry Question... |
Chemistry World July 21, 2008 |
Chemical Education in Need of Reform China's university chemistry departments are struggling to attract students despite the rapid expansion of the country's higher education system. |
Chemistry World September 9, 2011 Sean Milmo |
King's College resurrects chemistry department King's College London is reopening its department of chemistry in 2012, eight years after it was closed due in part to a sharp drop in the popularity of the subject. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2010 |
Chemistry at Sussex under threat again The department, which topped The Guardian's 2010 university league table for chemistry, is set to lose some 40 per cent of its faculty, according to Phil Parsons, head of organic chemistry at Sussex. |
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 January 9, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president dies Anthony Ledwith, former president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has died aged 81. |
Chemistry World December 2011 Nicole Moreau |
Chemistry - Our Life, Our Future A look back on a year of chemistry. |
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 September 24, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Plants and microorganisms are the original synthetic chemists Greg Challis is a professor of chemical biology at the University of Warwick in the UK. Research in the Challis group encompasses the discovery, biosynthesis, bioengineering and mechanism of action of bioactive natural products. |
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. |
Chemistry World February 16, 2011 Laura Howes |
International Year of Chemistry launches across the world Over 1000 people from more than 60 countries helped to launch the International Year of Chemistry at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, France. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |