All Reactions and synthesis articles – Page 51
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      ResearchJellyfish skin perfect mould to cast complex nanoparticles
Hierarchical silver hybrid particles are cheap to make and have good catalytic activity
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      ResearchEspresso maker brews up tasty extraction
Household appliance isolates flu drug raw material from star anise while minimising pigment contamination
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      ResearchTerpene analogues bear safer pesticides
Synthetic biology route to new versions of natural products, with surprising biological activities
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      ResearchChemists snare 17-electron half-sandwich radical
Important organometallic complex finally isolated and characterised after 40-year pursuit
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      ResearchMolecular shuttle slides into the solid state
Rotaxane ‘switch’ has been successfully wedded to a metal–organic framework
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Floppy polymer defies convention to form rigid framework
Hybrid metal–organic frameworks could be engineered with a whole set of new properties
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      ResearchAnton Toutov: The power of potassium
Anton Toutov discusses how using potassium to make silicon-containing organic chemicals has shaken up chemistry
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      ResearchMicromotor catalyst powers up hydrogen production
Catalytic particles offer new cheaper and safer way of storing hydrogen for vehicles
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      ResearchDefective by design
Structural disorder brings out desirable but counterintuitive phenomenon in metal–organic framework
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      OpinionLimaspermidine and deethylibophyllidine
Desymmetrisation offers a neat way to add tricky features, says BRSM
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      ResearchLonger-lived oxides offer silicon synthesis boost
Touted as ‘soluble sand’, stabilised small silicon oxides present new synthetic worlds
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Ionic liquids come up smelling of roses
Perfume delivery system triggered by water keeps sweet smells around for longer
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Single-face fluorinated carbon ring takes the strain
Hexafluorocyclohexane created with all fluorines pointing ‘up’ could lead to new supramolecular strategies
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      OpinionBack to basics for silylation
Karl Collins applauds the simplicity of adding silicon to heterocycles with KOtBu
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Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules
A new automated platform speeds up synthesis of small molecules
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      ResearchSpicing up MOFs
Framework based on the turmeric pigment curcumin delivers two drugs for the price of one