Physical chemistry
The latest chemistry news and research on physical chemistry, including quantum and theoretical, bonding, computational and surfaces and interfaces, from the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, Chemistry World
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ArticleA Nobel for chiral catalysts’ helping hand
This year’s laureates didn’t invent asymmetric synthesis, but filled in our understanding of how it works and how we can do it better
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ResearchAI helps chemists consider more options when it comes to picking the best reactants for an experiment
Algorithm can standardise substrate selection to improve performance and structural diversity
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ResearchTagging AI-generated proteins during design process will let scientists know who made them
Google DeepMind researchers who developed the method say that this will help uphold scientific integrity and prevent misuse of protein designs
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FeatureNMR spectroscopy from its origins to hyperpolarisation and beyond
From Richard Ernst’s Nobel prize-winning techniques to hyperpolarisation and in-situ battery analysis, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy continues to reinvent itself
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NewsGoogle DeepMind’s mutation Atlas shines a light on our dark DNA
AI’s predictions on the impact of changing each and every base of the human genome will help scientists understand genetic basis of disease
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OpinionFeeding AI’s appetite for data
Tapping companies’ archives makes for better predictions of how proteins bind drugs, but any data inputs need to be transparent and attributed
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NewsCan we predict what happens in a molecular movie?
A seemingly impossible challenge revealed how close theorists are to truly predicting the future in computational photochemistry
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ResearchCopper chains more than 4000 atoms long are the longest ever produced
Carbon-sheathed copper wires produced under extreme pressure
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ResearchMolecular dyes outside of the sRGB colour gamut present a challenge for digital chemistry
Researchers warn that colour clipping could mean camera-based reaction monitoring setups misinterpret measurements, with implications for increasingly automated laboratories
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OpinionDo isolated molecules have structure?
If quantum mechanically described superposition states exist, can a molecule truly have a shape?
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OpinionChemistry contains multitudes
There’s room (and need) for all the various subspecies of chemical scientists
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OpinionArtificial intelligence or clever artifice?
It’s important to be realistic about what AI can, and can’t, achieve, across the chemistry enterprise
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BusinessCombining AI with experiments to solve real-world materials problems
CuspAI’s Materials Foundry partner network includes 45 technology, data and materials chemistry companies to make and test its predictions
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Feature150 years of Gibbs’ phase rule
In 1876, Josiah Willard Gibbs published an equation that would transform chemistry – yet barely anyone noticed at the time. The story of his phase rule is one of delayed recognition, mathematical abstraction and enduring scientific legacy
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PuzzleChemistry wordoku #153
This chemistry wordoku looks at how space spores brought life on Earth!
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NewsUS National Science Foundation putting $380 million into building ‘self-driving’ labs
North Carolina State is one of the institutes receiving a $20 million grant aims to advance an autonomous chemistry lab
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ResearchChemists reveal just how much angle – and proximity – matters for molecules to react when they collide
Discovery could one day allow chemists to create more efficient reactions that require less energy
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ResearchRelativity rewrites the textbook take on triple bonds, experiments on carbon–bismuth ion prove
Results show how bonding in heavy elements mixes up molecular orbitals