Emily Cuffin-Munday
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Organocatalyst deconstructs mixed plastic waste into monomers
Step towards closed-loop recycling
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Click chemistry with sound-induced mechanocatalysis
Researcher behind work says they ‘could be very close to a perfect way to conduct green chemistry’
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Boron-doped olympicenes are surprisingly stable
By possessing useful electronic properties, boraolympicenes could have potential applications in organic electronics
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Surprise as electric fields found to cleave bond homolytically
Study also uncovers that the reaction rate in a field increases linearly with the solvent dielectric constant
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Gigantic database of building blocks will help artificial intelligence uncover new organocatalysts
Publicly available dataset containing thousands of structures could help chemists develop data-driven reaction optimisation methods for organic synthesis
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Computational study says polonium can form hydrogen bonds
Bonds driven by relativistic effects, rather than electronegativity differences