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ResearchSynthetic strategy exploits fluxional nitrogen to deliver three chiral centres for the price of one
Innovative method amplifies chirality and complexity in medicinally relevant cyclic hydrazines
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Mixed oxidation states expand repertoire of hypervalent iodine reagents
Iodine(iii) and iodine(v) coexist in new nitroiodoxybenzene-based oxidant
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Elusive water ionisation intermediate found using ultrafast x-ray pulses
H2O+ cationic hole never directly observed before
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Mystery around ‘stealthy’ surfactants deepens as study raises more questions
Simple explanation for why inorganic boron clusters behave like organic surfactants doesn’t convince everyone
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Semiconductive properties see subvalent silver oxide contravene textbook rules
Extreme synthetic conditions create material with a seemingly implausible electron count
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Inorganic fragment library ready to help drug discoverers reach neglected regions of chemical space
A new approach to fragment-based drug design
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Rare subvalent compound sits on the fence between semiconductors and intermetallics
Liquid indium solvent and sulfur-poor conditions allow scientists to create a new subchalcogenide
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Uranium-reducing electrode cleans up groundwater
Electrochemical technique could limit spread of uranium at contaminated sites
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Intense sound fields make mercury react with water
After nearly a century, scientists can explain why a grey cloud forms when mercury and water are sonicated
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Trigold anion is first example of strange twisted aromaticity
A blue tin–gold cluster is the first to show in-plane σ-Möbius aromaticity
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Engineered insulin with enhanced thermal stability inspired by fish-hunting snails
Four-disulfide insulin has similar bioactivity to native human insulin
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Positron dihalides join exotic group of molecules that combine matter and antimatter
Theoretical evidence that positronic covalent bonds between halide anions would be energetically stable
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Simulated chiral light identifies and controls mirror-image molecules
Theoretical ‘photonic reagent’ could highlight enantiomers for simple separation
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Supramolecular mask simplifies fullerene modification
Porphyrin structure makes it easier to perform selective reactions on fullerene substrates
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Tiny water droplets reveal minimum number of molecules to make ice
Ice as we know it ceases to exist in droplets that fall below this threshold
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Protons are even smaller than scientists thought, experiment reveals
The proton-radius puzzle isn’t solved just yet though
