All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2010-2015 – Page 193
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Business
Otsuka to buy Astex for $886 million
Japanese firm intends to leave Astex’s fragment-based R&D efforts intact
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NewsAnother drug suspension overturned in India
Safety concerns put sales of antidepressant Deanxit on ice until firms petitioned a high court
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Opinion
Misconduct: on the blog and in the open
When formal investigations of research misconduct are opaque and sluggish, it is inevitable that chemists will take to the blogs to debate suspicious papers, says Mark Peplow
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PodcastWilkinson's catalyst
Simon Cotton introduces the dynamic Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, and the catalyst that carries his name
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ResearchUnravelling stereochemistry via mass spectrometry
Technique reveals a molecule’s chirality without separating the enantiomers or growing pure crystals
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Research
Tea stains find new use as antibacterial coating
Plant polyphenols used to create a thin layer that sticks to even Teflon
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Research
Water-splitting catalyst based on Prussian blue
Cobalt-based derivative catalyses oxidation of water
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Research
Worrying molecule found in bottled water
Analysis finds a new endocrine disrupting chemical in bottled water
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ResearchHandcuff catenanes
Mechanically interlocked molecules that are incredibly difficult to make have been synthesised by scientists in the US
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Business
GSK divests Lucozade and Ribena brands
£1.35 billion deal allows GSK to focus on pharma business
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ResearchShape memory polymer hosts functional nanoparticles
A polymer that remembers its original shape after being scrunched up gives support to nanoparticles
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NewsMosquito repellents from skin secretions
The smell of people who don’t get bitten by mosquitoes so often might help those of us that do
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Business
First biosimilar antibody drugs approved in Europe
European commission gives final approval to generic infliximab copies
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Research
Explosive research isolates mercury azides
Cool nerves and steady hands were needed to isolate and characterise explosive mercury compounds
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Research
Bacteria incriminated by their odour
Device that can simultaneously detect and identify bacteria could help save lives
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NewsCall to overhaul liver toxicity testing
Outdated tests could be causing drug candidates to be scrapped without reason, say scientists
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Research
Sulfur difluoride dimer exposes bonding strangeness
Recoupled pair bond dyads help molecule break the rules
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Research
Brain cancer severity linked with oxidation state of iron
Measuring the oxidation state of metals in tumours may give information on cancer progression
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NewsGoing for gold comes with cost
Parliamentary report concludes that the UK’s focus on gold open access may eat into research budgets