All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 125
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News
The actinides, not so unpredictable after all
Theoretical framework accounts for unexpected properties of the late actinides (plutonium, americium and curium)
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News
New limits set on chirality
Textbooks need updating as researchers measure the spatial arrangement of the most subtly chiral molecule ever synthesised
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Review
Physical chemistry on the nano scale
This is an accessible book for chemists who are starting out in the area of nanophysics
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Review
Living with metals
Over 20 different metallic elements are known to be essential to support and maintain life processes in human beings
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Review
Flash George
George Porter shared the 1967 Nobel prize for chemistry with Ronald Norrish and Manfred Eigen
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Review
The golden touch
Interest in gold catalysts has burgeoned and Catalysis by gold is a timely, thorough and lucid summary of the whole field
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Feature
The shape shifters
A sudden change in the properties of a drug as a new polymorph appears can be highly damaging for pharma firms. The industry now appears to be in control of the situation
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Feature
Ready for Reach?
Reach will start to be implemented in June and companies are being urged to prepare for it. This is easier said than done, with many areas of the legislation still decidedly fuzzy
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Feature
Fuelling China's future
Min Enze helped to kickstart China's industrial boom. Fifty years on, his research focuses on tackling the environmental damage of development, reports Bea Perks
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FeatureThe click concept
To some, 'click chemistry' is simply a relabelling of standard organic chemistry practices. Others follow its principles almost religiously
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Opinion
Letters: April 2007
From Clifford Jones In the UK, batches of faulty petrol were recently found to have been contaminated with silicon (see p11). Burning this fuel would have formed silica (SiO2) particles which clogged the oxygen sensor at the exhaust, causing it to fail in its role in ’engine management’. ...
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News
Roll up, roll up! Flexible electronic displays come to town
Flexible electronic displays are finally racing to be first to bring their products to mass market
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Careers
'I didn’t lose sight of the bigger picture'
As a teenager in a small Russian town, Andrei Khlobystov stood out for his desire to be a chemist. He is now making waves in the UK with his nano work, as he tells Yfke Hager
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Opinion
Justifying total synthesis
Derek Lowe wonders whether total synthesis is still worth the effort
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Opinion
Battling bacteria with copper
Copper doorknobs could be the latest - and oldest - way to beat the bugs
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Feature
Better, stronger, faster
Now we have bionic eyes and limbs, and chemists are creating artificial bodily tissues to rival nature's own, as Jon Evans discovers