All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 203
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Liquid reaction from magnetic attraction
Moving water on the nanoscale with the help of a hand-held magnet
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Chemists probe the perils of attachment
Enzyme activity is altered when proteins are adsorbed onto carbon nanotubes
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Improving asymmetric reactions
New breed of organocatalysts is set to improve on existing systems
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Arsenic donors gratefully received
A groundbreaking mixed donor diamido-diarsine [As2N2] macrocyclic ligand that coordinates to a series of early transition metals (ETMs) has been designed
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Agriculture: Latest report fails to shift Europe's GM fears
While European Union (EU) states have backed away from overturning national bans on genetically modified (GM) crops, an independent UK project report has shown that GM herbicide-tolerant crops will help farmers without harming wildlife.
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Sticky tubes? Just add water
Japanese and US researchers tackle the problems of nanotube hydrophobicity
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Synthesis: All aboard the train for Africa
Flow chemistry doesn't immediately spring to mind alongside the word Africa, but the marketing team at technology company Syriss, Royston, UK, hope to change that
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Opinion
Letters: April 2005
I wanted to mention that there is an error in the Chemistry World article, Record breakers about the world’s smallest test tube (December 2004, p7). In the initial press release we errantly listed the volume of our test tube as 10-24 litres, or a yoctolitre. In reality, it is 10-21 ...
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Opinion
Your views: January 2005
Is the merger of chemistry departments to form broader science departments a good thing?
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In BriefApril 2005
Bayer stockholders; Award nominations; Waste management policy; Drug addiction seminar; 2004 Analytica-Anacon exhibition
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The chemist's guide to. April 2005
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Smart-1 space probe entered the Moon's orbit late in 2004. So what's chemistry got to do with it?
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Technical trouble
Paul Boateng, chief secretary to the Treasury in the UK, has called on politicians and scientists to recognise the importance of further education (FE) in the UK.
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Feature
A provincial scientist
Throughout his prolific career in chemistry, Paul Sabatier remained faithful to his roots in provincial France. Mary Jo Nye introduces us to the Nobel laureate and investigates the chemistry that made him such an important figure in organic chemistry
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Proteomics in a spin
Why turn to tens of thousands of pounds-worth of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipment when a standard bench centrifuge will do? It's a question posed following the recent launch of Agilent Technologies' multiple affinity removal spin ca
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Perfect peak separation
A new technique looks set to surprise analytical chemists and revolutionise ion chromatography.
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Review
A perennial painkiller
More than 100 years old, aspirin is the most popular and successful drug ever
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Metal mimics
German scientists have made progress in the quest to mimic the activity of catechol oxidase, the copper-containing enzyme found in fungi, bacteria and plants.