Industrial chemistry – Page 10
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ArticleHow possible contaminants are investigated
The analytical stages when a suspected issue is found in a product
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ArticleDesign of experiments
Statistical analysis can accelerate development, reduce costs and increase manufacturing quality
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Opinion
Management by numbers
Reducing intellectual processes to metrics runs the risk of people working to the numbers not the goal
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ResearchGlass beads offer simple solution to dispensing tiny amounts of solids
Frustration drove chemists to overcome engineering challenge slowing high-throughput reaction screening set-ups
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ResearchDoing away with membranes from the chloralkali process
Cost-effective and scalable electrochemical cells rely on inertial separation mechanism, rather than membranes, to keep products separate
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ArticleBetter chemistry through data
Are you under constant pressure to innovate? Get a boost from data analytics
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OpinionWe’re going to need a bigger flask
Scaling up reactions is easy to get wrong in a variety of ways
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ResearchThe five reactions on every organic chemist’s wish list
Synthesis has some catching-up to do to create the reactions every drug discovery chemist dreams of
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OpinionIn search of ultimate selectivity
A catalyst that reacts only with aryl iodides, spurning bromides and chlorides
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ResearchPatent-busting AI tool navigates around protected drug pathways
Organic retrosynthesis software can identify key bonds involved in patented reactions to find alternative pathways
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PodcastLevulinic acid
How one footballer's climate concerns led to the creation of a green chemistry company: the story of Mathieu Flamini, GFBiochemicals and levulinic acid.
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ResearchWaste vegetable oils turned into chemicals for drugs and plastics
Dual catalytic system converts complex carboxylic acids into terminal alkenes
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ResearchExotic amino acids made easy with radicals
Stereoselective radical coupling to rival classic Strecker synthesis for easy access to unusual amino acids
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FeatureThe nanocoatings holding back corrosion
Corrosion is an age-old problem, but some of the latest solutions are distinctly 21st century. Rachel Brazil reports
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FeatureCombining homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
Can you make a catalyst that has the stability and recyclability of a heterogeneous one with the selectivity of a homogeneous one? Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists finding out
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FeatureSolvents and sustainability
Organic solvents make up a huge part of the waste from the chemical industry. Clare Sansom looks at efforts to reduce the loss or replace them entirely