Chemistry

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Chemistry World December 6, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Chemists crack fluoroform challenge US scientists appear to have cracked a long-standing problem in organofluorine chemistry -- how to find a simple and efficient way to use the low-cost and abundant compound fluoroform as a trifluoromethylation agent.
Chemistry World December 6, 2012 John Hayward	Student inspiration The second edition of Organic Chemistry by Clayden and others, has undergone a substantial overhaul and yet still retains the features that made it quite so attractive to students in the first place.
Chemistry World December 5, 2012 Neil Withers	We don't need no intuition US scientists have developed a way to solve crystal structures that combines powerful computational methods with data from experiments or databases -- but that does not require much human input.
Chemistry World December 5, 2012 Tamsin Cowley	Safer blood clotting agents for open wounds New toxicity results show that foams would be safer than the currently used clays as materials to stem blood flow in open wounds.
Chemistry World December 5, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Chemical reactions in hot water Chinese and Japanese chemists have highlighted hot water's ability to promote unexpected reactions without any other reagents or catalysts. The work should expand our understanding of how to harness the physicochemical properties of water to potentially replace more complex reagents and catalysts.
Chemistry World December 4, 2012 Emma Stoye	Low acrylamide potato on the horizon During cooking, different varieties of potatoes can produce widely varying levels of the carcinogen acrylamide. Researchers investigated the formation of the chemical in nine different potato varieties.
Chemistry World December 3, 2012 Charlie Quigg	A greener approach to gas transport Gas storage is an expensive and energy intensive process, which has left the use of isolated natural gas reserves and gas sequestration plans unfeasible. However, an international collaboration of scientists has developed a way of storing gas in 'bioclathrates' formed from fruit and vegetables.
Chemistry World December 3, 2012 Bibiana Campos Seijo	The gift of science Nobel prize winner Robert Curl recalls: 'When I was nine years old, my parents gave me a chemistry set. Within a week, I had decided to become a chemist.' A familiar story? I'm sure it is.
Chemistry World December 3, 2012 Andrea Sella	Karl Fischer's titrator In his 1937 paper, Fischer proposed a breathtakingly simple titration using a standard methanolic solution of iodine, sulfur dioxide, and pyridine, where the end point was signalled by the persistence of the brown iodine.
Chemistry World November 30, 2012 Andy Extance	Chemists cull compounds using 'intuition' Medicinal chemists might be using far fewer parameters to choose candidate fragments for a screening collection than they think they do. Their choices can be mimicked based on just one or two properties, a team led by researchers at Swiss-headquarted pharmaceutical firm Novartis has found.
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