News – Page 184
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ResearchLigand selector steers C–N cross-couplings down most sustainable path
Tool is step towards strategy that considers reagents and reactants above and below the arrow
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NewsHexion, Momentive and Norsk Hydro all hit by ransomware cyber attacks
Cybersecurity failures have forced network shutdowns and disrupted business at three chemical firms
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NewsEurope to introduce ban on single-use plastics in 2021
Parliament overwhelming passes legislation to tackle a range of plastics
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NewsWindow of opportunity to deal with harmful chemicals closing, UN warns
Innovative solutions needed as report acknowledges governments and businesses won’t hit 2020 targets
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NewsUK and EU agree contract that buys more time for Jet nuclear fusion lab
Future of the fusion experiment is secured until the end of 2020
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ResearchCatalyst that never needs to touch its reactant breaks textbook principle
Calculations show how catalyst confined in optical cavity can influence reagent without the two ever coming into contact
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ResearchFrozen fluorine’s structure revisited after 50 years
Second ever crystal structure of solid fluorine solves 50-year-old crystal symmetry conundrum
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NewsUS lists formaldehyde, flame retardents as ‘high priority’ for review
Concerns voiced that the decisions could pre-empt states’ ability to take stronger action on dangerous chemicals
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NewsEU outlines goals for its seven year multi-billion euro programme
Agreement on funding still a work in progress with the commission and parliament at loggerheads
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ResearchSimulations solve mystery of why silver tarnishes
Discovery could create corrosion-proof circuits
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ResearchCobalt singled out for selective alcohol oxidation
Support network aids performance by isolating catalytic metal
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NewsTrump directive ties university research funding to ‘free speech’
US academic groups are worried by the new executive order that threatens $35 billion in research funding
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ResearchNew hydroamination reactions discovered after revisiting old mechanism
Unexpected but reasonable results show there’s nothing boring about organoboron chemistry
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NewsTop UK funders don’t support most highly cited health researchers
Only a third of leading health academics received funding
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ResearchOdd boron compound gets two nitrogen molecules to link up
Bis-dinitrogen made directly from nitrogen gas in first-of-its-kind reaction
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ResearchUntreated water works just fine as polymerisation solvent
Discovery that impurities don’t impede reaction could cut costs
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Business47 dead in China chemicals plant explosion
Enormous blast at China chemicals producer flattens large parts of industrial park and injures more than 600 people
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BusinessDowDuPont ends fungicide dog experiment amid public pressure
Brazil agrees regulatory waiver for ‘unnecessary’ experiment highlighted in US Humane Society undercover footage
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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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ResearchWarnings that dirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Metal contaminants that can’t be removed by cleaning can be a serious problem for sensitive reactions