Organic chemistry
The latest chemistry news and research on organic chemistry, including synthesis, natural products and total synthesis, reaction mechanisms and supramolecular chemistry, from the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, Chemistry World
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Opinion
Getting good at human tasks
’What do you mean you had to lock the NMR with an oscilloscope and shim the magnet by hand?’
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Research
‘Microlightning’ released by peeling tape can drive chemical reactions
Intense localised electric fields can break bonds
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Research
Path to carbon dioxide-based chemicals smoothed with a dash of acid
Hydrochloric acid dissolves salts that gum-up reaction process
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Research
Why some sunscreens turn clothes crimson when bleached
Laundry mishap leads researchers to a surprising substitution reaction
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Opinion
Contemporary chemistry owes a lot to benzene's beginnings
Celebrating what started when Faraday found the molecule with no end
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News
How to find out if your magnetic stirrer is affecting your results – and how to fix it
Valentine Ananikov explains how the humble stirrer bar may be altering your results
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Research
Super-reducing photoredox catalyst paves a new way for arene reduction
Bio-inspired catalyst can reduce arenes without the need for harsh conditions
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Research
Abundant alkanes become gaseous alkylating agent with flow chemistry
Photocatalytic process can carry out late-stage optimisation of drug candidates
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Research
Lotions and perfumes found to affect ‘human oxidation field’ chemistry
What this means for us, if anything, is still unclear
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Research
Winery cuts costs with carbon capture pilot plant that uses metal–organic framework
Carbon dioxide captured from fermentation in a scalable, selective and sustainable manner
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Opinion
Normalising huge substrate scopes worsens wellbeing
And holds up the pace of scientific progress
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Research
Selective C–H bond fluorination enables conformational reporting in a complex natural product
Radical fluorination leaves extant functional groups intact
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News
‘I worked on it little by little, with the help of a beer’: Making MOFs out of paper
Chemistry World talks to Ryo Horikoshi about engaging students with chemistry concepts using his stunning paper models
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News
How to make metal–organic frameworks and cages out of paper
Ryo Horikoshi shows us how to make amazing supramolecular models to inspire students
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News
A year on from the announcement of the dichloromethane ban, US research labs brace for change
Trump administration appears to be backing the Biden rule so universities are moving to comply
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Research
Super-shielded carbene is stable in liquid water
Researchers claim to have validated a decades-old hypothesis formulated by Ronald Breslow by generating a carbene in an aqueous environment
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Research
Bridging the gap between Hammett parameters and the electronic structure of aromatic systems
Occupation of effective atomic orbitals used to quantify and predict Hammett parameters
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Filter paper simplifies squaramide synthesis
Capillary-driven flow distributes reagents evenly
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Skeletal editing provides quick access to pharmaceutical ‘matching pairs’
Late-stage functional group switching in dibenzofurans will aid drug discovery chemistry