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ResearchChloride ion central to first synthesis of a siladodecahedrane
Three-step synthesis creates a platonic solid out of silicon
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The search for the grand unification of aromaticity
Researchers have been trying to find a full definition of aromaticity for almost two centuries, and yet keep discovering new types. Katrina Krämer asks when chemists will get to the bottom of this elusive concept.
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Newly discovered marine compound is in a super-carbon-chain league of its own
Isolated from algae, Benthol A has 35 stereocentres
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Molecular light switch speeds up tricky cyclodextrin synthesis
Reaction could lower cost of useful macrocycle
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First nanocluster that’s a superatom inside a superatom
Heterometal doping strategy used to make an unusual structure where one superatom is contained inside another
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Chemists control reaction path with mechanical force
Mechanochemical mechanism exploited to access unconventional trajectories on a reaction’s potential energy surface
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Chemists reconsider C–H and C–C bond length rationale
Quantitative proof for steric repulsion theory
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Gold double helix assembles with DNA-like precision
DNA construction principles create first ever double-helical gold nanocluster assembly
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Best sighting yet of exotic crystals composed entirely of electrons
2D materials used to stabilise Wigner crystals
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Computational technique brings protein images into focus
Localisation algorithm breaks AFM resolution limits
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Molecular machines talk to living cells for the first time
Artificial molecular motors gently pull on cells’ membrane receptors to trigger a biochemical response
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Origin of mysterious alpha effect in nucleophilic substitution reactions unveiled
Alpha nucleophiles’ ability to get close to electrophiles – rather than their intramolecular lone pair repulsion – gives them unusual reactivity
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Fun with f-elements
Working with lanthanides and actinides may be challenging, but David Mills says the field is ripe for discovery
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Scientists uncover pitfalls of letting algorithms determine crystal structures
Chemists warn not to blindly trust x-ray crystallography software after finding and correcting mistakes in iodine azide structures
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More metallomimetic chemistry from boron
One boron atom bonds like a transition metal in two different ways
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Anti-electrostatic halogen bonding shown in solution for the first time
UV-vis spectroscopy and computational analysis explore nature of counterintuitive anionic interaction
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Potassium’s electrons slowly transform into anions under pressure
Electride transition solves the mystery of how a liquid can be denser than a close-packed solid
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Bond between artificial and natural atom measured for the first time
Chemists reveal the tiny forces in chemical bonds between quantum corrals and AFM tip atoms
