All Molecular chemistry articles
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ResearchWatching molecular ions transform in real time
A new method that combines ultrafast electron diffraction with multiphoton ionisation has captured the dynamics of a cation in the gas phase for the first time
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ResearchElusive pyridine-based chloronium structures revealed
Researchers complete set of halonium ions by isolating a reactive chloronium structure
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ResearchFirst synthesis of 1-azahomocubane shows nitrogen can take the strain
Chemists overcome synthetic challenges to finally incorporate a nitrogen atom into the homocubane skeleton
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ResearchControversy surrounds corrected chemical structures
Researchers used machine learning-powered NMR prediction to correct improbable structures – but some of their revisions have been challenged
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FeatureWhen will molecular electronics make the connection?
Computer chips based on single molecules may remain a work in progress, finds James Mitchell Crow but the technologies developed along the way are being used by chemists to explore their reactions
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ResearchPerfluorocubane catches electron in molecular box
Cube-shaped molecule can hold a single electron – a real-life version of the ‘particle in a box’ principle from quantum mechanics textbooks
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OpinionBeyond the transition state
Entropy production could be a key guide to predicting how a reaction product forms
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ResearchFirst fundamentally new form of adsorption for more than 90 years driven by molecular machines
Unlike physisorption and chemisorption, the newly discovered ‘mechanisorption’ is an active process that can store energy or chemicals
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ResearchMethod to make unusual oligonucleotides could be a boon for gene therapy drugs
Synthesis can insert unusual linkages into DNA molecules while rivalling industry standard chemistry in speed and efficiency
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ResearchGiant molecular cage protects plastic-eating enzyme
Caged protein withstands temperatures much hotter than its usual melting point and becomes 1000 times more resistant to solvents
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ResearchNo more worrying about nomenclature – AI will tell you what that chemical is called
Open-source online resource converts organic chemical structures to their Iupac names and vice versa
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OpinionAre we giving chemicals bad names?
Does it matter that we use a mixture of old and systematic names for chemicals?
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ResearchThree-centre single-electron bond caught in a cage
Fullerene cage stabilises bond never before seen in lanthanide chemistry
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OpinionSpace, energy and synthetic half-reactions
Matching driving forces with intermediates to predict new chemistry
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OpinionWhen does a hydrogen bond become a covalent bond?
Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy probes the character of the short, strong bonds in HF2–
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ResearchKnotted molecules can transfer chirality from the nano to the macroscale
Simply unknotting a molecule added to liquid crystals can invert their chirality
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OpinionMolecular dynamics used to simulate 100 million atoms
At the point of simulating bulk matter
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ResearchFirst glimpse caught of how a molecule changes when it absorbs light
X-rays enable direct observation of the initial step of a light-driven reaction
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ResearchMolecular cages give amides a twist to increase reactivity up to 14 times
Squeezing amides into twisted conformation inside nanosized cages makes them easier to hydrolyse
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ResearchLargest molecular wheel ever made pushes limits of aromaticity rules
Giant, 162 π-electron aromatic ring shows that we haven’t reached the upper limit of Hückel’s rule yet