Organic chemistry – Page 50

  • Cone snail, Cyprus
    Podcast

    Conotoxins

    2014-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Helen Scales finds out how unique toxins found in deadly cone snail stings could herald the next generation of painkillers

  • surechem-image_300tb
    News

    Database of 15 million chemical structures set free

    2013-12-16T00:00:00Z

    European Bioinformatics Institute will curate patent data which should be a boon for drug chemists

  • Weed killer
    Podcast

    Glyphosate

    2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

    A popular way to weed out unwanted pest plants, Jen Newton introduces glyphosate

  • Smoked fish
    Podcast

    Guaiacol

    2013-12-04T00:00:00Z

    This week, Ben Valsler investigates the smoky compound that links whisky, kippers, bacon, hot dogs, coffee, creosote and cough syrup

  • Lawnmower
    Podcast

    Hexenal

    2013-11-27T00:00:00Z

    For many, it’s the smell of spring and summer. But hexenal - responsible for the aroma of freshly cut grass - makes Simon Cotton think of cricket.

  • Ciguatoxin CTX1B
    Opinion

    Gone to completion

    2013-11-26T00:00:00Z

    After a 66-step journey, Paul Docherty ponders the future of total synthesis in his final column

  • Marcfortines B (left) and C (right)
    Opinion

    Marcfortines B & C

    2013-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Paul Docherty ponders a tasty cheeseboard as a source of synthetic inspiration

  • 1113CW-In-the-pipeline_630m
    Opinion

    Natural born chemists

    2013-10-31T00:00:00Z

    Redesigning nature’s catalysts is tantalising but tricky, says Derek Lowe

  • 1113CW-REVIEWS_more-dead-ends-and-detours_300m
    Review

    More dead ends and detours en route to successful total synthesis

    2013-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Try, try again

  • Spanish fly
    Podcast

    Spanish fly

    2013-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Helen Scales looks at cantharidin, the active ingredient in this famous aphrodisiac

  • 1013CW-TOT-SYN-Main_300
    Opinion

    Scholarisine A

    2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Paul Docherty marvels at a parade of intricate radical reactions

  • Man on canyon edge
    Opinion

    What's the use?

    2013-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Not every reaction can be run in a bucket, says Derek Lowe, but there are limits to what should be classed as ‘useful’

  • absinthe
    Podcast

    Thujone

    2013-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Wrongly blamed for murders and hallucinations, Simon Cotton raises a glass of absinthe to this week’s compound: Thujone

  • Sperm whale
    Podcast

    Ambergris

    2013-09-18T00:00:00Z

    How can whale waste make you a fortune? This week, Helen Scales searches for Ambergris

  • Wilkinson's catalyst
    Podcast

    Wilkinson's catalyst

    2013-09-06T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton introduces the dynamic Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, and the catalyst that carries his name

  • Deadly Nightshade
    Podcast

    Atropine

    2013-09-04T00:00:00Z

    The poison from deadly nightshade, used in a recent attempted murder - Dan Johnson introduces atropine

  • Steviol
    Opinion

    Steviol

    2013-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Sculpting a molecule from a larger whole is an unusual but effective strategy, says Paul Docherty

  • earth from the moon
    Feature

    Chemistry's grand challenges

    2013-08-28T00:00:00Z

    What are the big problems for the next generation of chemists to work on? Mark Peplow takes up the gauntlet

  • Opinion

    Melotenine A

    2013-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Paul Docherty extols the virtues of chiral heteroatoms

  • Botox injection
    Podcast

    Botox

    2013-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Just 50 grams could kill everyone on the planet, but we have it injected into our faces. David Lindsay on Botox