All nitrogen articles
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ResearchEnantioselective synthesis of elusive chiral nitrogen compounds discovered by chance
An ‘elegant and simple’ way to make nitrogen stereocentres by supramolecular recognition
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Business
Deadly liquid nitrogen leak at US poultry plant prompts $1m in fines
Georgia chicken processing facility, its gas supplier and cleaners failed to implement safety procures that could have saved six lives
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Opinion
Letters: May 2021
Readers ponder hydrogel vaccine distribution and life with hearing difficulties
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Opinion
The active uses of an inert gas
Meeting the many demands for nitrogen in chemical plants requires a fascinating piece of equipment
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Feature
Getting to the root of soil nitrogen
The farming industry’s reliance on nitrogen compounds is altering the environment, but Ian Le Guillou finds a better understanding of the interplay between plants and microbes could help to reduce the impact
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Research
Holes cause sodium nitride to behave like a metal
Clathrate’s strange metallic nature caused by electronically active cavities
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Research
Nitrogen radical chemistry sees the light
Daniele Leonori explains how his group is taking inspiration from 30-year-old chemistry to devise shorter syntheses for bioactive compounds
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Research
New high pressure allotrope of nitrogen solves a chemical mystery
‘Black nitrogen’ shares similarities with other elements in its group on the periodic table – answering the question of why nitrogen normally doesn’t
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Research
Chemists taken aback as dinitrogen found to speed up some reactions
Warnings that nitrogen should no longer be considered just an inert carrier gas
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Research
Lightning-inspired method makes ammonia with no catalyst
Plasma-enabled electrolysis produces the vital gas in high purity – but also consumes much more energy than current methods
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Research
Nanospike electrodes offer cheap, clean route to ammonia
Nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst improves efficiency of nitrogen reduction process
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Research
Low-pressure ammonia production could cut fertiliser energy cost
Lanthanum–cobalt catalyst that breaks nitrogen triple bond under mild conditions could revolutionise small-scale ammonia synthesis
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Research
Inorganic polystyrene gives old material a new backbone
New catalytic route opens the door to polymers made from boron and nitrogen
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Research
Putting a new spin on things
In the next part of our future of chemistry series we look at how diamond defects could transform everything from NMR to fighting cancer
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Business
Airgas fined for fatal nitrogen leak at US sperm bank
$300,000 penalty for leak caused by over-pressurisation after Airgas failed to update tank safety label
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Research
Fullerene nanoflask captures reactivity of atomic nitrogen
‘Molecular surgery’ transforms fullerenes into nano-scale flasks
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