Catalysis – Page 23

  • Wilkinson's catalyst
    Podcast

    Wilkinson's catalyst

    2013-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton introduces the dynamic Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, and the catalyst that carries his name

  • Business

    Waste CO2-derived plastic hits tonne scale

    2013-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Novomer turns emissions from ammonia plant into polymers

  • Business

    Pfizer's lost gold

    2012-12-10T00:00:00Z

    A stash of gold dust bought for $700,000 last year has gone missing from a Pfizer lab in St Louis, Missouri, US

  • News

    Chemistry nobel laureate William Knowles dies

    2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

    Renowned asymmetric synthesis chemist dies aged 95

  • A photograph of a fireworks display over Venice
    Podcast

    Potassium chlorate

    2011-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Fireworks, explosives, spacecraft – Neil Withers explains why potassium chlorate is the sort of compound that draws attention to chemistry

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    Feature

    When is a catalyst not a catalyst?

    2011-04-28T10:03:00Z

    This riddle has come to vex certain corners of the catalysis community. But once solved, it could potentially point to new kinds of chemistry, as James Mitchell Crow discovers

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    Feature

    Gold fever

    2010-08-27T14:41:00Z

    The catalytic potential of gold nanoparticles was overlooked for years, but researchers are making up for lost time, writes Bea Perks

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    Feature

    At the top of the cascade

    2007-07-26T12:08:00Z

    David MacMillan, a leading light in organocatalysis, takes James Mitchell Crow on a tour of the field

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    Feature

    The perfect host

    2007-06-29T14:03:00Z

    Could artificial enzymes finally be about to shake up catalysis? James Mitchell Crow investigates

  • Portrait of Alfred Nobel on the glass door of Swedish Academy and Nobel Museum in Stockholm
    Feature

    Three share prize for metathesis work

    2005-10-27T14:47:00Z

    The discoveries made by this year's Nobel laureates have had a great impact on new drug developments, polymeric materials and industrial syntheses. Karen Harries-Rees reports.