All Reactions and synthesis articles – Page 46
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      OpinionCrossing the boundaries
Getting reagents across interfaces requires help from phase-transfer catalysts – but transferring information is harder
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      ResearchChemical synthesis injects new life into old antibiotics
Approach can construct wide range of new antibiotic candidates from simple chemical building blocks
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      ResearchExplosive water display caught on film
SLAC produces first slow motion video of droplets exploding in path of x-ray laser
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      ResearchCrawling chemical system acts as if it’s alive
Intriguing globule that moves, eats and defecates
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      ResearchDesigner rhodium catalyst targets selected C–H bonds
Catalyst’s carbene pocket shows a preference for specific links without needing a directing group
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      ResearchAFM study could prompt surface catalysis rethink
Intermediates predicted by theory don’t match those seen under the microscope
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      ResearchGoodbye borazine, hello hydrogen
New catalyst unleashes more hydrogen for ammonia borane-powered fuel cells
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      ResearchBacteria seeded with synthetic pathways
Living factories provide alternative to complicated chemical syntheses or farming hectares of crops
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      ResearchActive esters enable powerful new route to carbon–carbon bonds
‘Insanely easy’ approach to form previously tricky sp3–sp3 bonds already being used by pharma just three months after discovery
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      OpinionAn odd couple
Coupling unactivated phenols with amines requires an unusual approach, as Karl Collins discovers
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      ResearchElusive Suzuki intermediates finally captured
Backing for model that ‘jumped straight into textbooks’ without any experimental evidence
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      ResearchRibosome mimic assembles made to order molecules
DNA machine can be programmed to produce a wide range of polymers and even keeps a record of each one it makes
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      OpinionChemistry under control
There’s more to influencing the science of change than temperature and catalysts
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      ResearchMacrocyle aromaticity switch is all about that base
Deprotonation triggers rare conformation change in expanded porphyrin
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      OpinionToxicity is a hazardous waste
We must teach students how to avoid environmental impact rather than accept itas an inherent part of chemistry, argues John Warner
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      ResearchCarbon monoxide where you want it, when you want it
Hazardous bottled gas redundant thanks to methods that generate it at the point of use
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      ResearchWhipping oils into a frenzy
Armour plated bubbles are the key to stable, temperature sensitive air-in-oil foams
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      ResearchA new twist on aromaticity
Researchers break record for benzene ring with the largest twist angle