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ResearchPhotocatalysis in flow makes carbon bonds from nearly inert natural gases
C–H activating methane, ethane and propane in a flow reactor shows that it’s possible to use gaseous hydrocarbons as reagents in organic synthesis
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How the products of fire control the formation of snow
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind brings an organic chemist’s arrow-pushing insight to reactions in the atmosphere
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Light-harvesting wheel reinvented by chemists copying bacterium
Synthetic mimic of complex at the heart of photosynthesis offers new ways to capture solar energy
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Excited state potential energy curves reignite diatomic carbon’s bond order conundrum
Molecular orbital theory-based approach backs quadrupole bond
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New bond discovered among spodium elements zinc, cadmium and mercury
Group 12 joins the σ-hole interaction family with spodium bonds
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Mechanical force used to trigger isomerisation in 3D molecule
An atomically sharp scanning tunnelling microscope tip has been used to control the isomerisation of a butterfly-shaped compound
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Bright blue radical lives on for months in chicken feed and urea solution
Deep eutectic solvents can tame methyl viologen radical used in self-dimming windows
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Computational method challenges NMR metabolomics dogma
Macromolecule signal suppression without the loss of quantitative small molecule information finally achieved with mathematical trick
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Unnatural reaction benefits from computational tool that teaches an old enzyme new tricks
Method could generate artificial enzymes that are more suitable for directed evolution
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Ultrasound makes nano-waves, generating ‘green’ radicals
Chemical engineers use high-frequency soundwaves to dissociate water without catalysts or electrolytes
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‘Godzilla’s gym socks’ molecules' stench tamed by halogen bond
Russian researchers have found a way to eliminate the odour of some of the worst-smelling – but very useful – compounds in chemistry
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First reaction on carbon nanobelts creates largest ever iptycene
Diels-Alder reactivity signals that carbon nanobelts could be useful building blocks for large macrocyclic carbon-based structures
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Unprecedented biosynthetic transformation found to connect antibacterial polyketides from ant microbiome
Study identifies enzymes that convert flat fasamycins into three-dimensional formicamycins
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Microfluidic electrochemistry delivers radical coupling breakthrough
Interelectrode gap engineered so that diffusion outpaces radical decomposition
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Algorithm devises synthetic contingency plans for Covid-19 drug
Retrosynthesis software tool can identify multiple synthetic routes that use inexpensive and diverse starting materials while avoiding patented methods
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Beautiful molecules ring up with a purpose
How Stephen Goldup used his experience in organic synthesis to find a supramolecular niche
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Drone blows clouds of pollen laden bubbles that could help farmers out
Automated bubble-firing drones could pollinate crops when insects numbers are down
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Solvated electrons’ metallic transition resolved with spectroscopy
First photoelectron spectra of electrolyte-to-metal transition in ammoniated electrons could lead to metallic water
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Proteins pinpointed in cells at nanometre resolution
Combining fluorescence microscopy and electron tomography will reveal more about how cells work and how diseases disrupt them
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Strange hexagonal form of table salt discovered
Predicted by an evolutionary algorithm, the first hexagonal sodium chloride was made on a diamond surface
