All Columns articles – Page 89
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Opinion
Letters: June 2007
From Peter Plesch When in 1989 I was writing the paper entitled The relation between reduction potential and solvation energy for some aryl-methylium ions, (J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1989, 1139), I needed the ionisation potentials of the tri-4-X-phenylmethyl radicals, where X = Cl, H, and MeO, as these ...
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Talking nanotechnology with the public
Philip Ball discusses Europe's efforts to communicate innovations in nanotechnology to a wide audience
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Patented fundamentals
Derek Lowe sets the record straight about pharmaceutical patents on traditional medicines
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Letters: May 2007
From Peter Plesch I wish to challenge Ted Nield’s Comment piece (Chemistry World, March 2007, p38). As chair of the Association of British Science Writers, he should know better than to lump together science and technology. Science is about finding and developing ideas about Nature in the widest ...
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Editorial: Mining traditional Chinese medicines
China holds great opportunities, but their drug industry must clean up its act
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Controversial colloid chemistry
Philip Ball reflects on the long-running debate about how colloids stick together
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Reasons to be cheerful
After months of bleak news about faltering pipelines and redundancies, it's time to find reasons to be cheerful about the drug industry, says Derek Lowe.
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Letters: April 2007
From Clifford Jones In the UK, batches of faulty petrol were recently found to have been contaminated with silicon (see p11). Burning this fuel would have formed silica (SiO2) particles which clogged the oxygen sensor at the exhaust, causing it to fail in its role in ’engine management’. ...
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Justifying total synthesis
Derek Lowe wonders whether total synthesis is still worth the effort
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Battling bacteria with copper
Copper doorknobs could be the latest - and oldest - way to beat the bugs
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Editorial: Chemistry and climate change
The UK government has long seen itself as a world leader in tackling climate change
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Letters: March 2007
From Clive Delmonte Sir John O’Reilly’s comment on peer review covers many pertinent points, but I feel there is a further crucial aspect to consider (Chemistry World, February 2007, p36). The accepted paradigms in science are that non-experts defer to the opinion of experts, while the experts ...