All Reactions and synthesis articles – Page 35
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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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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
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Two atom reaction smallest chemistry experiment ever performed
Exquisite manipulation of a single sodium and caesium atom could herald start of an era of total control over chemistry
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Introducing gallaarsene, the first of its kind
Molecule features rare gallium–arsenic double bond
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Engineered enzymes make super strained rings
Mutated haem proteins make light work of synthesising bicyclobutanes
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Step-by-step synthesis of DNA
Andy Extance discovers how scientists are delivering the extremely accurate DNA chemistry and biochemistry needed to make genes – and even genomes
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Artificial photosynthesis harnesses forgotten half of sunlight’s energy
Intermediate band semiconductor enables infrared radiation to drive a carbon dioxide splitting reaction
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Solving the crystal maze
Workflow swaps gut feelings for data when designing continuous crystallisation processes
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Bizarre bimetallic compounds break C–F bonds
First ever molecular Mg–Al bond constructed in study that reveals main group metal–metal bonds can readily react with aromatic fluorine
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Titanium complex converts methane to alkenes at room temperature
New work illustrates the ‘crucial steps’ required for a process to make useful chemical feedstocks from methane
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Enzymes enter new territory to perform unnatural reaction
Cyclopropanation catalysis opens door to greener chemistry
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Simple synthesis makes curious chiral clamshell molecule
Compounds with two chiral axes hold promise for catalysis and even molecular machines