Reaction mechanisms – Page 8

  • Dusty reagent bottles
    Opinion

    Death of a reagent

    2014-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Fashion and progress combine to mean some reactions and reagents persist, while others fall by the wayside, says Derek Lowe

  • The putative carbon coupling pathway functions without transition metals
    Research

    Carbon–carbon couplings go 3D

    2014-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Reaction extends 2010 Nobel prize winning Suzuki coupling and can be used to modify natural products

  • diagram showing how clockwise rotation of the rotor around the axle, by photochemically and thermally induced steps, controls the position and helical orientation of the catalytic groups A and B, providing sequentially I, II, and III with different activi
    News

    Molecular motor controls chirality

    2011-02-10T19:00:00Z

    Controlling the chirality of a molecule can be achieved using a light-driven molecular motor, say scientists in the Netherlands

  • FEATURE-INGOLD-200
    Feature

    Organic pioneer

    2008-11-27T11:23:00Z

    Christopher Ingold's insights into mechanism and reactivity established many of the principles of organic chemistry. John Ridd reveals more about his life and work

  • Opinion

    Rubioncolin B

    2008-07-30T13:02:00Z

    Researchers have successfully synthesised the complex natural product Rubioncolin B using a biomimetic approach that mimics nature's own chemistry, providing new insights into how plants construct these intricate molecules.

  • Opinion

    Superacids: the strongest chemicals that can protonate anything

    2007-08-28T13:10:00Z

    What could possibly contain the strongest acid in the world, asks Dylan Stiles

  • Portrait of Alfred Nobel on the glass door of Swedish Academy and Nobel Museum in Stockholm
    Feature

    Three share prize for metathesis work

    2005-10-27T14:47:00Z

    The discoveries made by this year's Nobel laureates have had a great impact on new drug developments, polymeric materials and industrial syntheses. Karen Harries-Rees reports.