All Chemistry World articles in March 2022
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ResearchAncient Mars meteorites’ organic chemistry cracked – and it’s not alien microbes
Study uncovers geochemical processes that formed organic compounds millions of years ago, at a time when the red planet still had liquid water
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ResearchEvolved enzymes carry out new-to-nature radical chemistry
Directed evolution produces enzymes that can ‘tame’ radical intermediates for asymmetric catalytic reactions
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ResearchEngineered enzyme speeds up sedate organic reaction
Biochemical optimisation applied to the Morita–Hillman–Baylis reaction
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NewsInterim report on UK research bureaucracy provides a taste of what’s to come
Admin burden has increased over time and grant applications top academics’ list
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ResearchRising ozone pollution threatens east Asia’s cereal crops
Losses of wheat, rice and maize add up to $63 billion every year
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ResearchDilanthanide complexes smash record for strongest single-molecule magnet
Complexes featuring first ever lanthanide–lanthanide bond could offer way to make powerful new permanent magnets
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NewsCriminal case against Chinese-born top MIT scientist collapses
US prosecutors dismiss criminal charges against nanotechnologist Gang Chen, saying they cannot meet the ‘burden of proof at trial’
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ResearchDeviation study suggests numerous elemental analyses are too good to be true
Should journals introduce new requirements for researchers reporting elemental analysis data?
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OpinionWhat next for the US’s China Initiative after the case against MIT’s Gang Chen falls apart?
The US’s probe into researchers’ ties to China and potential theft of intellectual property stands on a knife edge
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NewsRoyal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’
Governments, scientists, journalists and other stakeholders will all need to work together to tackle the problem
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ResearchUltrafast pyrolysis makes hydrogen from banana peels
Photothermal process converts biomass into valuable syngas and solids with a flash of white light
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NewsNobel prize medal of DFT inventor Walter Kohn is up for auction
$457,531Nobel medal and textbooks owned by scientist who fled Nazis as a child go under the hammer
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BusinessMartin Shkreli fined and banned from pharma for life
‘Pharma Bro’ must pay back $65m in profits for anticompetitive behaviour while leading Turing Pharmaceuticals
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ResearchWorldwide wastewater analysis reveals rise of designer drugs during lockdowns
Replacement of banned mephedrone found for the first time in New Zealand over 2020 Christmas period
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NewsUS visa changes aim to attract and retain foreign Stem students
Biden administration announces new pathways for international students to remain for longer after graduation
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ResearchSimulations reveal how manipulating ocean acidity could lower atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
Strategy would see surface acidity pumped into deeper ocean layers
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ResearchXFELs make small molecule crystallography without crystals possible
High-speed technique allows structures of difficult molecules to be determined
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NewsEarth’s limits pushed by chemical pollution as UN environment meeting nears
Plastic and chemical production has overtaken our ability to control it, study finds
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ResearchComputational study predicts new high-pressure polymorph of Roy
Conformational energy-corrected DFT combined with crystal structure prediction leads to first crystal energy landscape for Roy that agrees with experimental evidence
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ResearchRobotic production line gives 2D materials a twist to produce multilayer structures
Precise fabrication of heterostructures with up to 80 layers will allow exploration of these materials’ exotic properties