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SponsoredMetathesis: the green method of chemical synthesis
Getting the most out of your reactions is a crucial part of green chemistry. The bond-forming prowess of metathesis catalysts can help
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Carbon dioxide recycling on the ball
Cocatalysts on the outside and inside of hollow spheres trigger photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction to syngas
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Three negative charges crammed onto carbons in a single molecule
The first organic tricarbanion pushes the number of negative charges in one molecule to its limits
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Day–night temperature fluctuations power hydrogen evolution
Pyrocatalytic nanoparticles split water and produce hydrogen
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'Trojan horse' artificial enzyme smuggles unnatural reactions into cells
New-to-nature chemistry in mammalian cells made possible by metalloenzyme system
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Spins doctor water’s reactivity
Ultracold experiments reveal water isomers have different reaction rates
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Enzyme helps photoredox get enantioselective
Enantioenriched amine synthesis is inaugural example of photoredox and enzyme collaboration
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Robots explore chemistry’s dark spaces
Thousands of nanoscale experiments create map of reactions that don’t work
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Opinion
Why choice of solvent matters more than you think
Weak interactions with solvents could change the chemical identity of a solution
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Study confirms long-distance quantum tunnelling in thiourea
Validation for unusual proton-transfer process first observed 15 years ago
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Opinion
Making light work of synthesis
The LED zeppelin is flying high, but is it all hot air asks Karl Collins
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Nanospike electrodes offer cheap, clean route to ammonia
Nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst improves efficiency of nitrogen reduction process
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Plasmon chemistry sheds new light on designing photocatalysts
Quasiparticle observed getting involved in dissociation reaction
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Fuelling the hydrogen economy with straw and old newspapers
A new catalytic process converts non-food biomass into extremely pure hydrogen, ready for use in fuel cells
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Mechanochemistry yields supersized nanographenes
Ball milling produces large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a matter of minutes
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Opinion
A sideways look at synthesis
Side products might not be what you want, but they could be what you need
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Challenging mirror molecules made with stereochemistry destroying reaction
Clever catalyst repurposes classic nucleophilic substitution to make chiral quaternary carbon centres
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Combining homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
Can you make a catalyst that has the stability and recyclability of a heterogeneous one with the selectivity of a homogeneous one? Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists finding out
