Organic chemistry – Page 16
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ResearchAmide library created at speed with machine learning and stopped-flow chemistry
Approach used 90% less starting material than continuous flow equivalent
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OpinionNobel vision
Looking beyond the here-and-now let click chemistry open up a whole new world of possibility
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OpinionDavid MacMillan: ‘The medal is the real celebrity’
The Nobel prize-winner on the joys of handing out his medal to everyone, chatting with William Shatner and Alex Ferguson, and the pain of being a Scottish football fan
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ResearchBlood could supply haem centre for biomass-supported catalyst
Haemoglobin-derived catalyst used to reduce nitroarene into aromatic amines
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BusinessAn evolution in pharma outsourcing
Contract services firms are becoming increasingly sophisticated and embedded in the ecosystem of drug development
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Feature50 years of artemisinin
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how a wonder drug against malaria was discovered from a plant in a secret Chinese military project
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ResearchArtificial active transport offers new way to prepare complex oligorotaxanes
Novel class of molecular pump is driven by transamidation
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ResearchFirst synthesis of aza-triangulene in solution
Chemists synthesised and isolated unstable species and its cation in crystalline form
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ResearchMultitasking boron catalyses first aldol reaction from esters
Using esters instead of aldehydes offers chemists a completely new retrosynthetic disconnection
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NewsBest-selling chemistry textbook is now free
New edition of John McMurry’s Organic Chemistry will be open access after author discovers copyright loophole
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ResearchArtificially evolved enzyme tackles tricky cross coupling
Directed evolution on the metalloenzyme cytochrome P450 creates a catalyst for making macrocyclic antibiotics
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ResearchPerfluorocubane catches electron in molecular box
Cube-shaped molecule can hold a single electron – a real-life version of the ‘particle in a box’ principle from quantum mechanics textbooks
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OpinionIntegrating coding into chemistry helps science progress faster
Taking a beginner Python programming course can lead to big efficiency gains
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ResearchClever carbene synthesis replaces notoriously hazardous chemistry
Reactive carbon compounds can now be made from aldehydes instead of explosive or unstable reagents
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ResearchManganese coordination polymer separates xylene isomers
A highly flexible and stable material offers new opportunities for industrial xylene purification
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ResearchTime-resolved spectroscopy shines new light on migratory insertion mechanism
Using lasers to probe metal-centred reactions leads to new understanding of highly reactive catalytic intermediates
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OpinionPeriod of discovery
Chemical space contained sufficient information to formulate the periodic system 25 years before Mendeleev
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OpinionBetty Wright Harris’s explosive career
Hayley Bennett tells the story of a Black chemist who studied energetic materials – and ways to detect them
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ResearchImprobable rotaxane made using a foldamer helix
Macrocycle displaced to a site for which it has no formal affinity
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OpinionThe power of oxygen
Running oxidations on lab scale and plant scale – with the help of bleach