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OpinionZhenan Bao: 'We just had to dream big'
The flexible electronics maven talks about science’s biggest problem, orchids and Campbell’s chicken noodle soup
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Research
Automated radial synthesis could usher in era of chemistry ‘server farms’
System to streamline small molecule production could bring state-of-the-art chemistry to many more teams
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Research
Platinum makes PVC production greener and cheaper
A new single-atom catalyst could replace toxic mercury in the manufacture of vinyl chloride
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Webinar
Industrial data science for chemical process perfection
Join us on 7 April 2020 for a webinar to learn how to better understand chemical processes
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Research
Flow synthesis produces chiral intermediate for antidepressant drug
The first solvent-free organocatalytic flow process yields the key chiral intermediate for paroxetine on a multigram-scale
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RSC
The future of chemistry: Science Horizons and Chemistry Means Business
Hundreds of scientists contributed to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Science Horizons report to build a picture of the challenges and opportunities the next generation will bring
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Opinion
Fluorine: the T rex of the periodic table
Pass out the nickel superalloy reactor kit, it’s time to tame that most reactive of elements
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Research
Can catalysis save us from our CO2 problem?
We need to start seeing carbon dioxide as as a valuable raw material to make chemicals, fuels and even food
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Careers
Are chemical engineering and biochemistry their own disciplines?
Exploring the edges of the chemical science family
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Podcast
Nitrogenase
The mysterious enzyme that can beat the world’s biggest chemical process when it comes to breaking the dinitrogen triple bond
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Research
Remote controlled self-optimising flow synthesis
Online interface could allow virtual sharing of complex kit, and enable simple improvement of reaction conditions
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Research
Enzymes enter new territory to perform unnatural reaction
Cyclopropanation catalysis opens door to greener chemistry
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Research
Antimalarial plant's chlorophyll catalyses drug synthesis
New ‘green’ method makes malaria-fighting artemisinin’s synthesis faster and cheaper with industrial production planned for 2021
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Research
Alternative pathway to phosphorus compounds skips white phosphorus
Intermediate opens way to making pesticides and flame retardants with novel silicon–phosphorus anion
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Research
1500 reactions per day go with the flow
Automated flow chemistry system puts high-speed spin on drug discovery
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News
Wanted: synthetic chemists (humans need not apply)
Automation could free chemists from tedious lab work – if they’re ready to think differently about research
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Research
‘Ikea reactionware’ promises to democratise organic chemistry
3D-printed modular reactor that ‘a child could use’ makes a drug in 40 hours
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Research
Remote control droplets merge on command to perform reactions
Responsive surfactants offer new ways to control chemical processes
