Organic chemistry – Page 32
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Research16 benzene rings make up bulkiest ever acene
Largest perphenylacene behaves like tetracene in an inert hydrocarbon sheath
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OpinionWe’re going to need a bigger flask
Scaling up reactions is easy to get wrong in a variety of ways
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ResearchThe five reactions on every organic chemist’s wish list
Synthesis has some catching-up to do to create the reactions every drug discovery chemist dreams of
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PodcastNitrogenase
The mysterious enzyme that can beat the world’s biggest chemical process when it comes to breaking the dinitrogen triple bond
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ResearchSolar cell tries its hand at organic synthesis
Nitrogen heterocycles can be attached to aromatic compounds in a single step using an iron oxide photocatalyst under visible light
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ResearchLight-activated chirality switch directs enantiomeric excess
Photoexcitation can transform a racemic ligand into one of its enantiomers
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ResearchTaking the pressure off catalytic carbon dioxide conversion
Chemists obtain formate from carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure without using hydrogen gas
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ResearchWalking radicals relocate double bonds
Nickel-guided radicals walk along carbon chains to make E-alkenes from terminal alkenes
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ResearchForceful treatment stabilises drug antibody linkages
Ultrasonic energy could modify maleimide–thiol connections in cancer treatments in volume
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OpinionIn search of ultimate selectivity
A catalyst that reacts only with aryl iodides, spurning bromides and chlorides
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ResearchFlexible route to enantiomerically enriched cyclobutanes
System for modifying square starting molecule could be gateway to numerous bioactive molecules
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ResearchSuperfluorinated peroxides surprise with stability
Fluorinated peroxides more stable than their non-fluorinated counterparts
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ResearchDroplets retain crystal-like structure while sliding on vertical substrate
Surprising properties of soft material may have significant impact on polymer physics
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ResearchScreening strategy pursues photocatalytic couplings for drug discovery
High-throughput screening and flow-based scale-up combo identifies chemistry needed to functionalise drug fragments and obtain useful amounts of product
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ResearchPatent-busting AI tool navigates around protected drug pathways
Organic retrosynthesis software can identify key bonds involved in patented reactions to find alternative pathways
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ResearchCrowdsourced drug discovery pits half-forgotten compounds against neglected diseases
45 research groups donate 350 compounds to the first crowdsourced screening library
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ResearchBenzene transformed into nanotubes with predictable defects
Synthesis delivers molecular cylinders that contain 240 sp2-carbon atoms
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PodcastEllagic acid
Louise Crane introduces the antioxidant that led to exaggerated claims that 'whisky helps fight cancer'