All chemical structures articles
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PodcastAzidoazide azide
A compound so explosively unstable that nobody has been able to measure how sensitive it is without it, well, exploding
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Research
Lessons from an unlikely cadmium carbonyl compound
Complete structural reassignment sees cadmium, carbon and chlorine replaced with rhenium, nitrogen and sulfur
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Research
Serendipitous experiment on xenon complex reveals insights into rare gas interaction
Experiment and theory combo gives benchmark for predicting non-covalent complexes
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Research
Program that automatically interprets NMR spectra is boon for structure elucidation
Raw NMR data takes 60 seconds, rather than eight hours, to go from spectrometer to structure
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Opinion
Kathleen Lonsdale’s crystallography tables
No princes were needed on the quest for structure factors
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News
PDFs dragged into digital age with 3D interactive chemical structures
Simple method allows a range of file types to be converted into 3D structures
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Research
CryoEM method offers organic analysis certainty
MicroED technique gives rapid, unambiguous structure determination with small, amorphous samples
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Research
Tool to navigate chemical space aims to be ‘Google Maps of drugs’
Software allows links between 8000 drugs and 47,000 compounds of environmental concern to be explored in 3D
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Sponsored
A guide to searching and using Markush structures
Chemical patents are often very long and difficult to read. Markush searching can enable you to easily categorise and filter the information you need, giving you the insights that a paper sometimes cannot.
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Research
Old and new spectroscopic techniques team up to decipher intricate alkaloids
Cutting-edge strategies set to increase our access to chemical space after researchers use them to verify unprecedented structures
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Webinar
Solving the issues in standardisation of stereochemical representations
Learn about technology that solves the issue of interpreting 3D stereochemical information implied in 2D structure representations.
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Opinion
That’s stereochemistry
Recognising the tetrahedral nature of carbon changed science as well as explaining it
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Research
Structural sleuthing salvages superbug slayer
Combining ‘assembly line’ synthesis, spectroscopy and computational predictions solves stereochemistry riddle
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Research
Bismuth drug structure solved
After over three centuries of mystery, the structure of bismuth subgallate has finally been uncovered
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Research
An end to incorrect NMR structures?
An adapted protein NMR technique could avoid the structures of complex molecules having to be revisited
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News
Balancing capability strategy brings better news for chemistry
The EPSRC has released its projections for which research areas will grow and which will reduce after a ‘longer, more systematic’ consultation.
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Research
Clever computers find solutions to NaOH structural puzzle
Researchers train neural network to uncover the complex structures of common base in solution
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Research
Noble gas joins σ-hole interaction crowd
Surprising ‘aerogen bonding’ completes set of p-block groups exhibiting the phenomenon
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Research
Crystalline sponge method strikes again
Innovative technique unveils structures of unique compounds with axial and planar chirality
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News
Forgotten synthetic PhD theses set to be given new lease of life
Chemical structures will be harvested from graduate work and analysed for promising drug and materials leads
