All Comment articles – Page 15

  • TOTALLY-SYN_180
    Opinion

    Asteriscunolide D

    2012-01-27T10:21:00Z

    Medium rings are a beguiling feature found in a host of natural products, owing to their behavioural oddities. While the properties and synthesis of smaller rings (three to six atoms in size) are well known, and that of true macrocycles can at least be estimated, each medium ...

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2012-01-27T10:00:21Z

    Manoj Mehrotra discusses the rapid rise of outsourcing strategies in research, development and manufacturing

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2012-01-27T09:55:52Z

    The private sector offers significant benefits to public sector labs hampered by bureaucracy and financial constraints, argues Quentin Maxwell-Jackson

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-12-22T10:38:19Z

    News of chemistry departments reopening is welcome, writes Jim Iley, but departments must think carefully about how to ensure their success

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-12-22T10:37:01Z

    A new network aims to bring the power of interdisciplinary innovation to bear on global food issues. Laura Barter, Stuart Dunbar, Angela Karp and Rudiger Woscholski explain

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-12-22T10:14:36Z

    David Fox argues for the creation of a centralised repository for small molecules to harness research efforts in drug discovery

  • TOTALLY-SYNTHETIC_p038_200
    Opinion

    Dragmacidin D

    2011-12-22T10:14:00Z

    Why do we make functional groups? That might come across as the dumbest question of the year, but there’s actually a point behind it. The majority of functional groups present in the synthetic intermediates in a synthesis don’t make it to the target - they are consumed, ...

  • TOTALLY_SYNTHETIC_p36_180
    Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-11-28T15:10:00Z

    (-)-Gymnodimine

  • Opinion

    Forgotten pioneers

    2011-11-28T15:03:00Z

    Who were the women that first led the way for female professional chemists? Marelene and Geoff Rayner-Canham reveal the story

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-11-28T14:57:01Z

    Nicole Moreau looks back on a year of chemistry

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-10-27T08:44:37Z

    We must improve the chemistry between industry and society, says Graeme Armstrong

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-10-27T08:33:16Z

    The UK government has lost the ability to ensure that the research that it really needs gets done, says Jack Stilgoe

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-10-26T15:15:38Z

    Gelsemoxonine

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:20:32Z

    Will filling your car with biofuel ever be sustainable? Matthew Aylott says that new technology is set to make this dream a reality

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:19:17Z

    Biofuels are needed more urgently than ever, but issues of land use change and management must be considered first, say Jeremy Woods, Seyed Ali Hosseini and Nilay Shah

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:18:01Z

    On their return from Monza, Bibiana Campos Seijo talks to the Williams F1 team about tyre performance, fuel and the chemistry of racing

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-09-29T14:14:35Z

    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions, says David Delpy

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-09-29T13:42:00Z

    Synechoxanthin

  • Opinion

    Column: Totally Synthetic

    2011-08-26T14:36:38Z

    Gliocladin C

  • Opinion

    Comment

    2011-08-26T11:44:40Z

    A confused picture has emerged following the EPSRCs funding announcement, says David Phillips