Reactions and synthesis
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ResearchNanoparticles assemble into first single-ingredient quasicrystal
Predicted a decade ago, the first one-component quasicrystal has been made from tetrahedral particles
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ResearchDispute over reaction prediction puts machine learning’s pitfalls in spotlight
Two research teams’ argument over a reaction-predicting algorithm show that there is still a lot to understand when applying machine learning to chemistry
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ResearchFoam catalyst performs hydrogen evolution in neutral conditions
Structure decouples water dissociation and hydrogen evolution processes
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ResearchLight catalyst breaks mirror symmetry in first reverse racemisation
Transformation makes single mirror image molecules in a ‘completely different way of doing enantioselective chemistry’
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ResearchCatalyst predictor shows drug manufacturing promise
Joint industrial–academic team develops and validates force-field tool for identifying ligands for enantioselective catalysis
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ResearchDwarf planet Ceres turns out to be extra-carbony
Asteroid belt’s largest object, thought to be a piece of rock, contains up to 20% carbon
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ResearchWeird mechanism behind catnip compound’s biosynthesis uncovered
Nepetalactone – the compound cats go crazy for – is made by a two-step procedure that is unlike any other in terpenoid biosynthesis
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ResearchCrop rotation for catalysts
Chemists take a leaf out of agriculture books to devise method for extending catalyst lifetime
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ResearchDouble umpolung approach to amino amide synthesis
Unusual disconnection strategy behind stereocontrolled route to β-amino amides
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ResearchWorld record for longest carbon–carbon bond broken
Carborane bond surpasses previous longest bond after just nine months in the top spot