All Reactions and synthesis articles – Page 20
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ResearchYour new labmate does 700 reactions in eight days – and it’s a robot
Robotic chemist optimises water-splitting photocatalyst by working continuously for eight days even in complete darkness
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ResearchPhotocatalysis in flow makes carbon bonds from nearly inert natural gases
C–H activating methane, ethane and propane in a flow reactor shows that it’s possible to use gaseous hydrocarbons as reagents in organic synthesis
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ResearchHow the products of fire control the formation of snow
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind brings an organic chemist’s arrow-pushing insight to reactions in the atmosphere
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ResearchLight-harvesting wheel reinvented by chemists copying bacterium
Synthetic mimic of complex at the heart of photosynthesis offers new ways to capture solar energy
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ResearchBright blue radical lives on for months in chicken feed and urea solution
Deep eutectic solvents can tame methyl viologen radical used in self-dimming windows
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ResearchUnnatural reaction benefits from computational tool that teaches an old enzyme new tricks
Method could generate artificial enzymes that are more suitable for directed evolution
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ResearchUltrasound makes nano-waves, generating ‘green’ radicals
Chemical engineers use high-frequency soundwaves to dissociate water without catalysts or electrolytes
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Research‘Godzilla’s gym socks’ molecules' stench tamed by halogen bond
Russian researchers have found a way to eliminate the odour of some of the worst-smelling – but very useful – compounds in chemistry
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ResearchFirst reaction on carbon nanobelts creates largest ever iptycene
Diels-Alder reactivity signals that carbon nanobelts could be useful building blocks for large macrocyclic carbon-based structures
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ResearchMicrofluidic electrochemistry delivers radical coupling breakthrough
Interelectrode gap engineered so that diffusion outpaces radical decomposition
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ResearchAlgorithm devises synthetic contingency plans for Covid-19 drug
Retrosynthesis software tool can identify multiple synthetic routes that use inexpensive and diverse starting materials while avoiding patented methods
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ResearchBeautiful molecules ring up with a purpose
How Stephen Goldup used his experience in organic synthesis to find a supramolecular niche
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ResearchNew kind of heterocycle made in just one easy step
Simple synthesis makes once inaccessible class of fused seven-membered ring system
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ResearchModel maps solvent effects on non-covalent interactions
Tool will help experimental chemists pick the best solvent for their reaction
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ResearchMethod that yields oxygen-18-enriched alcohols set to bolster drug studies
Mitsunobu-based protocol is simple alternative to limited and lengthy methods
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ResearchLaser carved copper catalysts unveil secrets of turning CO2 into fuels
Selectivity maps help identify optimal conditions to produce chemicals of choice
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ResearchFirst natural Diels–Alder enzyme discovered in mulberry tree
Enzyme beats most synthetic catalysts when it comes to enantioselective intermolecular [4+2] cycloadditions