All Organic chemistry articles – Page 14
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ResearchLight intensity changes can switch photocatalyst between one- and two-photon mechanisms
Simple optical lens behind strategy for manipulating photochemical reactivity
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Lignin and carbon dioxide turned into ethanol
Process generates bulk chemical from two renewable carbon sources
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Mystery of whether or not kekulene is superaromatic unravelled after 41 years
Second-ever synthesis and first atomic resolution images of superbenzene reveal its electronic nature
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Carbynes expand the possibilities of carbon–carbon double bonds
Chemists use novel monovalent carbon species to insert functionalities in the middle of double bonds
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Alzheimer’s therapy has click chemistry use, then remove, brain copper build-ups
In situ drug synthesis catalysed by endogenous copper
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Synthetic flame retardant compounds turn up as marine natural products
Finding an alga that biosynthesises halogenated anilines increases likelihood of finding an organism that can degrade the toxic compounds too
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Opinion
Stille cross-coupling
Palladium and tin combined to lay the foundations for a revolution in C–C bond-forming reactions
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Template molecules round-up extra-large cyclodextrins from enzymatic synthesis
Scientists rethink how they use enzymes in chemical synthesis by exerting thermodynamic, rather than kinetic, control
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Universal method bypasses obstacles to making neglected hydrocarbon skeletons
Universal method bypasses obstacles to making neglected hydrocarbon skeletons
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Opinion
Embracing structural disorder
Medicinal chemists need to overcome their fear of fuzzy proteins
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Opinion
Stereoselectivity with a twist
Helical ligands amplify solvent chirality to control reaction outcomes
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Research
Solution to 120 year-old puzzle reveals new chemical phenomenon
Seemingly identical acetaldehyde phenylhydrazone crystals melt at different temperatures
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New carbodiphosphoranes break superbasicity record
Chemists overcome synthetic challenges to make uncharged carbon molecules that sit at far end of THF basicity scale
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Catalyst cleans up alcohol couplings
Eight years’ work yields Mitsunobu chemistry with nothing but water as a byproduct
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Carbon dioxide serves as carbonyl source in frugal process for making aromatic esters
Nanoscale confinement triggers strong base reactivity in process that shuns stoichiometric consumption of resource intensive reagents
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Retrosynthetic algorithm broadened to design similar, but different, molecules
Chematica can now design efficient syntheses for large compound libraries
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First ever synthesis of most double-bond-rich hydrocarbon
Tiny hydrocarbon with six double bonds has unrivalled ability to make complex ring systems though multiple Diels–Alder reactions
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Explosive 25% more powerful than TNT found in first study of energetic isomers
Stereo- and regiochemistry affect compounds’ explosive potential
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New form of pure carbon made by manipulating atoms
Elusive 18-carbon ring pinned down on surface
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Opinion
Margaret Brimble: 'Spiroketals are my favourite molecules'
The New Zealand chemist on careers, creativity and why everything just has to be blue
