News – Page 138
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ResearchSalt bridge strategy expands access to pharmaceutical cocrystals
New approach to cocrystallisation could lead to exciting multi-drug combinations
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BusinessStretching liquid crystals to the limit with LC AuxeTec
The unintuitive properties of LC AuxeTec’s materials mean they thicken when stretched, and could be exploited in body armour and skyscraper windows
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ResearchUltrafast experiments capture speed-of-light excitation delay as photon travels across H2
Photon excites one end of the molecule first, and then the other end 247 zeptoseconds later
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NewsCold Spring Harbor Laboratory to open first chemistry lab in its 130-year history
Renowned molecular biology institute is bringing click chemistry to drug discovery
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ResearchHammett equation parameters optimised for improved predictive power
Update overcomes limitations and eliminates human biases intrinsic to the original formulation
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ResearchMechanochemistry shakes up carbon capture with simple way to trap gas
When ground in a ball mill, solid lysine traps carbon dioxide in a quick and reversible manner
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BusinessEU commits to overhaul of chemicals legislation
The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability promises the biggest reform since Reach
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ResearchDiels–Alder study casts doubt on innate endo-selectivity
New evidence questions the Alder endo rule of simple Diels–Alder reactions
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Research‘Forgotten’ Egyptian blue pigment found in Raphael fresco
Scientists speculate that knowledge of making the ‘first synthetic pigment’ wasn’t quite as lost as some have supposed
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ResearchRoom temperature superconductivity finally claimed by mystery material
At high pressures carbon–hydrogen–sulfur compound becomes superconducting at 15˚C
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BusinessCovid-19 highlights need to update pharma supply chains
Resilience and redundancy are key amid protectionist calls for domestic manufacturing
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NewsChemistry at work in e-liquids is still poorly understood, worrying researchers
New compounds with potentially harmful effects on the lungs can form from the mixture of flavours and solvents – even at room temperature
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ResearchSuperbenzenes now do the twist too
Supertwistacene is the first configurationally stable chiral graphene nanoribbon
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ResearchIridium pincer complex promotes unprecedented ether decarbonylation
Scientists stumble upon unique transformation that involves breaking an extraordinary number of bonds
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ResearchUniversal chemistry software can turn words into chemicals
System could be the beginning of a brave new world of democratised chemistry
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NewsNew Covid-19 test doesn’t need reagents that are in short supply
US researchers develop a two-step test for the novel coronavirus that doesn’t requires the use of scarce reagents
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NewsMario Molina, who warned of CFC threat to the ozone layer, dies
Atmospheric chemist’s work led to the phasing out of ozone-depleting substances
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NewsPhysical sciences funder wants UK women to go for bigger grants
Just five applications for grants over £10 million received from women since 2007
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NewsIndian government pursues national journal access plan
New model would replace institutional subscriptions, but is subject to publishers’ cooperation
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NewsImmigration vote outcome greeted with relief by Swiss scientists
Research community feared a repeat of 2014 vote that led to Switzerland being frozen out of EU science programmes