Reactions and synthesis – Page 6
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Harvesting water from the air with organic crystals
Discovery could lead to novel technologies for fighting water scarcity
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Water works as medium for reactions that reduce carboxylic acids
Catalytic system works on a wide range of acid substrates and doesn’t require precious metals or air and moisture intolerant reagents
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AI identifies molecules from their featureless visible spectrum
Forget about trying to interpret peaks and let machine learning identify organic compounds from their entirely smooth visible spectrum
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Pure conjugated polymer nanowires crystallised using oligomers
Oligomers used to induce crystallisation in parent conjugated polymers for the first time
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Elusive pyridine-based chloronium structures revealed
Researchers complete set of halonium ions by isolating a reactive chloronium structure
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First synthesis of 1-azahomocubane shows nitrogen can take the strain
Chemists overcome synthetic challenges to finally incorporate a nitrogen atom into the homocubane skeleton
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Gel capsules make reactions with organolithiums simpler and safer
Low-cost gels improve the handling and storage of traditionally dangerous organometallics, expanding applications and possibilities in synthesis
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Surprise as electric fields found to cleave bond homolytically
Study also uncovers that the reaction rate in a field increases linearly with the solvent dielectric constant
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Metal–carbon catalysts made from plants can break down plastics
Soil remediation study sees researchers develop method for converting low-density polyethylene into liquid hydrocarbons
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Tetraquinoline is the newest member of the nitrogen macrocycle family
The new saddle-shaped macrocycle shows catalytic activity and affinity to zinc cations
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Four new bonds to one carbon atom, in a single step
Accidental discovery shows that N-heterocyclic carbenes can act as sources of atomic carbon
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’Photoredox catalysis goes asymmetric’: counterion strategy a breakthrough in reaction control
Ion-pairing enables chemists to reach previously inaccessible enantiomers
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AI model accurately classifies reaction mechanisms
Machine learning ‘surpasses chemist experts’ in identifying chemical processes
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Chemical chainmail constructed from interlocked coordination polymers
Simple synthesis yields an ‘infinite’ structure with applications in flexible materials
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3D-printed single-atom catalysts brings industry use closer
Printing technique could allow more widespread application of exceptional catalytic particles
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Streamlined synthesis of quinine showcases sustainable organic strategy
Five pot synthesis delivers highest yield of antimalarial to date
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Photochemistry frees arene functionalisation from metals
Sulfonium salts offer new possibilities for the alkylation and cyanation of aromatic molecules
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Molecular motor running on electricity mimics biological motors
The nanomachine is based on a [3]catenane and isn’t operated through a microscope tip, unlike others
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Mechanochemistry set to expand availability of organomanganese reagents
Ball milling method avoids problems surrounding solution-based chemistry when synthesising arylmanganese nucleophiles
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Benchtop machine automates synthesis of drug screening hits
System could boost the efficiencies of drug discovery campaigns