All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 93
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News
Off-the-peg organic synthesis goes commercial
Bifunctional haloboronates clip together quickly and easily
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Feature
The education revolution
The traditional chemistry department has changed for good. Jonny Woodward uncovers the new face of higher education in chemistry
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Feature
Portable organs
A combination of medical research and engineering could bring an end to the era of putting precious human organs on ice to keep them alive for longer. Michael Gross reports
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Feature
A model city
Shanghai is being sculpted into the ideal of a modern Chinese city. It's also becoming China's centre for scientific innovation, as Victoria Gill reports
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Feature
How to kill your RNA
Switching off problematic genes with RNA interference promises treatments for a huge range of disease - if investigators can get it to where it's needed. Lisa Melton reports
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Review
Microscopic views on the nanoworld
This high-level collection of chapters on recent advances in modern microscopic characterisation methods is timely
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Review
How enzymes work
With today's biochemists gradually drifting further from their chemical roots, Frey and Hegeman's heroic tome on enzyme mechanisms is very welcome
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Review
Dirac and beyond
I suppose it was always inevitable that this book would start with the quote from Dirac about the completeness of quantum theory
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Review
Biodiversity for chemists
At first glance it may seem odd that the Royal Society of Chemistry has brought out a book on biodiversity
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Opinion
Letters: January 2008
From Bernard Langley May I congratulate you and your colleagues on your splendid November issue of Chemistry World. The balance of topics, the quality of the writing, the enthusiastic spirit of the whole thing - from your editorial right through to that magnificent killer review of the green chemistry book ...
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OpinionSchlenk apparatus
Wilhelm Johann Schlenk, the German chemist who prepared some of the first organosodium and organolithium compounds, and developed the inert-atmosphere techniques now common in many labs
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Careers
Bacteria and bioenergy
Multitasking professor Bruce Logan says environmental engineering may help save the planet. Susan Aldridge meets him
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Opinion
A notable year for closures and layoffs
It's been a rough year, but the future looks bright, says Derek Lowe
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Opinion
The confines of chemical space
Philip Ball wonders whether chemical space limits chemists' creativity