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Chemistry World May 2010 |
Mobile chemistry - chemistry in your hands and in your face Mobile chemistry has arrived. This short article will review some of the available tools and offers a view of what the near term future may hold for this domain. |
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Chemistry World February 12, 2014 Graham Wynne |
Introduction to biological and small molecule drug research and development This text, edited by Ganellin and others, will be of particular interest both to the medicinal chemist who is looking to increase their knowledge beyond the small molecules area, and those with experience in the biologics field. |
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Chemistry World May 27, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
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Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Bruce Alexander |
Inorganic redox processes Inorganic Electrochemistry: Theory, Practice and Application by Zanello, de Biani, and Nervi succeeds in doing exactly what the authors intend; that is to provide a useful guide to researchers wishing to investigate redox processes of compounds containing transition metals. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Chemical space is big. Really big. We are not going to run out of interesting and useful structures, and the uses that they could be put to are probably also beyond our imagining. In chemical space, we really do have an effectively endless frontier. |
Chemistry World August 7, 2012 Hamish Kidd |
Plant power The Chemistry of Plants -- Perfumes, Pigments and Poisons by Margareta Sequin can be enjoyed by anyone interested in organic chemistry as exemplified in the world of plants. |
Reactive Reports Issue 54 David Bradley |
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Column: In the Pipeline In recent years there's another class of 'unknown' compounds that's become more prominent than ever: the ones you can buy from the chemical catalogues. |
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To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2007 Svetla Baykoucheva |
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Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
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Chemistry World May 31, 2009 Nina Notman |
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Chemistry World June 14, 2012 Nina Notman |
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Chemistry World November 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
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Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
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Chemistry World December 12, 2012 Mathew Heal |
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Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
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Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Alexander Archibald |
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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. |
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Chemistry World March 5, 2015 Emma Stoye |
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Conquering Infinity with Chemical Genetics Harvard superchemist Stuart Schreiber defines the convergence of chemistry and biology. Now the field of chemical genetics is heading toward the clinic. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2007 Ned Stafford |
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Information Today November 13, 2006 Ed Vawter |
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