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Opinion
Callipeltoside A
Harvard's David Evans has applied his renowned aldol reaction expertise to synthesise callipeltoside A, a complex natural product that has challenged chemists since its isolation in 1996.
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Editorial: Our online offerings
Chemistry World is pleased to unveil a trio of innovations this month, spanning both our print and online offerings
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Divided by a common language
Derek Lowe dreams of the day when chemists and biologists can understand each other
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OpinionDrechsel's bottle
Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century
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OpinionKjeldahl flask
Beer has made an immense contribution to humanity generally and to chemists in particular
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Letters: April 2008
From Jeremy Tomkinson, Adrian Higson and Geraint Evans We found the article ’Flawed policies encourage damaging biofuels’ (Chemistry World, February 2008, p6) to be disappointingly unbalanced. The provocative titles used for the piece do little to stimulate a reasoned and scientific debate in this immensely complex subject. The RSC has ...
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Letters: March 2008
From Martin Humphrey A group of scientists in New Zealand recently announced that they had genetically modified onions in such a way as to eliminate the lachrymator. Having spent many years studying the chemistry of this phenomenon, I would like to assure them that they will also have removed the ...
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A dose of realism
The recent row over antidepressants reminds us how little we know about the brain, says Derek Lowe