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Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Philip Robinson	Ultrafast NMR shows the way Chemists have created an ultrafast NMR technique that can 'watch' how chemical reactions occur in real time. They've used the technique to follow the formation of pyrimidines from carbonyls and even identified new intermediates never before thought to be part of the reaction.
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Chemistry World November 21, 2011 David Bradley	Zombie reaction returns from the dead An oscillating reaction that apparently stops after 10 hours, but is then resurrected spontaneously several hours later, has been discovered by a group of chemistry students at the Mito Dai-ni senior high school in Ibaraki, Japan.
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Chemistry World September 1, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Copper Mines and Coordination Chemistry Extracting pure copper metal from low-grade metal ores will benefit from the latest coordination chemistry research, thanks to a molecule that can hold negative and positive ions in place, UK chemists claim.
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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 April 12, 2013 Melissae Fellet	Elusive atmospheric intermediates reveal some secrets Scientists have found further evidence for the existence of an elusive intermediate implicated in chemical reactions that degrade atmospheric pollutants.
Chemistry World September 2011 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Corey Stephenson of Boston University is an expert a type of reaction called photochemical reduction-oxidation. He has charmed photons into performing many chemical tricks, but one is a photoredox dehalogenation using blue light and a ruthenium bipyridyl catalyst.
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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 November 27, 2012 Paul Docherty	Pentalenolactone A methyl ester One team that really gets the Pauson -- Khand reaction or the PKR and all its nuances is that led by Zhen Yang at Peking University in Beijing, China. They recently published a very neat synthesis of the intricate pentalenolactone
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