Physical chemistry – Page 32
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ResearchDelocalisation pins down meaning of bond order
Reliable bond order definition provides new insights into covalency
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ResearchTool to navigate chemical space aims to be ‘Google Maps of drugs’
Software allows links between 8000 drugs and 47,000 compounds of environmental concern to be explored in 3D
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NewsNoble gas’s days of fixed atomic weight argon
Chemistry’s standardisation body introduces atomic weight interval for argon and updates weights of another 13 elements
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OpinionMaking gender equality more than theoretical
How the French Network for Theoretical Chemistry is addressing gender imbalance at conferences
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ResearchSpins doctor water’s reactivity
Ultracold experiments reveal water isomers have different reaction rates
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ResearchCarbon bubble-wrap could be packed with interesting behaviour
Theoretical chemists devise nanoscale version of satisfyingly interactive packaging material
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ReviewConjuring the universe: the origins of the laws of nature
Peter Atkins’ latest book is an ’elegant love letter’ to the simplicity and beauty of the mathematics that govern our universe
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ResearchMagnetism puts new spin on separating mirror image molecules
Enantiomers can be identified and separated using a magnetised substrate
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ResearchMachine learning masters molecules
Deep learning algorithms set to transform time-consuming molecular screening programs
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NewsTheoretical chemistry group takes stand on all-male speaker lists
The RFCT in France has taken a radical step to address gender diversity at conferences
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ResearchMethanol polymorphs predicted with unprecedented accuracy
Ability to map phase diagrams using quantum calculations could benefit pharma research
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ResearchPlasmon chemistry sheds new light on designing photocatalysts
Quasiparticle observed getting involved in dissociation reaction
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ResearchTuring patterned membrane takes on water purification
Mathematician Alan Turing’s sole chemistry paper inspires self-assembling spotted and striped polymer structures
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BusinessBig business computing
Chemical and oil firms are using supercomputers to improve every part of their operations. Angeli Mehta reports
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ResearchAlloy takes on improbable 'negative pressure' structure
New route to create materials almost impossible to make normally
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OpinionWhy you should care about Fair data
The benefits of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-useable information
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Research73 new exotic nuclei discovered at Japanese institute
Hunt for remaining 4000 predicted nuclides goes on but new technology is needed to find them all
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ResearchAnionic aluminium turns textbook knowledge on its head
First stable nucleophilic aluminium(I) compound offers new way to make aluminium–carbon bonds