Organic chemistry – Page 39
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ResearchTitanium complex converts methane to alkenes at room temperature
New work illustrates the ‘crucial steps’ required for a process to make useful chemical feedstocks from methane
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ResearchLongest carbon–carbon bond yet pushes chemistry to its limits
Steric strain creates bond longer than theory thought possible
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ArticleIn conversation with Robert Grubbs, Nobel laureate
Following the recent acquisition of the world-leading Materia catalyst business by Umicore, we’ve been granted an exclusive interview with Robert Grubbs, chemistry Nobel laureate and co-founder of Materia.
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ResearchSimple synthesis makes curious chiral clamshell molecule
Compounds with two chiral axes hold promise for catalysis and even molecular machines
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ResearchAmerican Civil War era tea yields modern day medicine
Macrocyclisation strategy key to obtaining long known alkaloid with untapped potential
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ResearchAI-invented syntheses are a hit in their lab debut
First proof that routes devised by an algorithm work in practice could make organic chemistry accessible to non-experts
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ResearchAntimalarial plant's chlorophyll catalyses drug synthesis
New ‘green’ method makes malaria-fighting artemisinin’s synthesis faster and cheaper with industrial production planned for 2021
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ResearchEncryption using carbon-13
New technique encrypts materials by altering levels of carbon-13 at regiospecific atoms
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ResearchMechanochemistry first as reaction driven by pressure
A redox reaction triggered by squeezing a crystal results in the ejection of copper nanoparticles
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ResearchSix degrees of chemical separation
Network analysis provides insight into navigating chemical space
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ResearchMachine learning triumphs in tough cross coupling challenge
5000 nanoscale experiments teach algorithm how to predict outcomes of reactions in the presence of inhibitors
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ResearchCarbyne equivalents fire up carbon–carbon bond formation
‘Easy-to-make’ reagent adds a wide variety of functional groups to aromatic rings
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ResearchUnpicking a unique molecular network
Computational modelling informs self-assembly solution
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OpinionKetones perform at the palladium
C–H activation takes the stress out of organometallic couplings