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Chemistry World February 20, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Calcium caught in an inverse sandwich Chemists in Germany and Switzerland have discovered the first stable complex of calcium(I) - a highly unusual structure for a metal whose chemistry is normally dominated by the +2 oxidation state.  |
Chemistry World March 10, 2006 |
Dual Organometallics Enhance Zinc Reactivity Chemists have synthesised organometallic compounds that enable zinc to participate in directed metalation of organic substrates.  |
Chemistry World October 29, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Two metals are better than one UK chemists have developed reagents that can metallate ethers and ethene at room temperature without them disintegrating.  |
Chemistry World June 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey This PhD student takes an organic chemist's tour around the periodic table.  |
Chemistry World October 31, 2014 Jason Woolford |
Square planar iron complex breaks inorganic dogma Researchers have synthesized a square-planar Fe(ii) complex that is not only high spin, but has a different core (FeO 2NCl) to the only other examples of this complex type, all of which feature an FeO 4 core.  |
Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Hydrogen Busters go Synthetic Chemists have created a small molecule which mimics the way natural enzymes chew up hydrogen. The model should inspire designs for new catalysts that can break up hydrogen in fuel cells; or (running in reverse) help produce the fuel for a hydrogen economy.  |
Chemistry World September 2, 2013 Laura Howes |
New oxidation state of uranium discovered The new +2 oxidation state, sought for over 30 years, has been seen fleetingly in the gas phase but until now it has not been observed in molecular species in solution.  |
Chemistry World December 23, 2008 Tom Westgate |
Gallium and uranium join forces A molecule featuring the first ever uranium-gallium bond may shed light on how related carbene ligands selectively extract uranium from lanthanides  |
Chemistry World August 22, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Death of a reagent Anyone who's been practicing organic chemistry for a while can think back to reactions and reagents that were once in far wider use than they are today.  |
Chemistry World June 5, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
The Attraction of Gold for Gold Researchers are unravelling some of the fundamental chemistry surrounding a key but poorly understood aspect of the coordination chemistry of gold -- the weak `aurophilic' interactions between adjacent atoms of Au(I) in organic complexes.  |
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Flattening carbon UK researchers have managed to synthesise a molecule with an almost planar four-coordinate carbon atom bonded to two lithium atoms and bulky organic ligands.  |
Chemistry World January 2009 Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible Oxidation state is a convenient fiction, but the concept is far from meaningless  |
Chemistry World August 28, 2015 Simon Higgins |
D-block chemistry Mark Winter's D-block chemistry, originally published as part of the Oxford chemistry primer series in 1995, and now revised and updated, is a good and approachable introduction to put this bewilderment in context.  |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways.  |
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 |
Colourful Research Jeremy Smith talks about why choosing inorganic chemistry was a case of columns versus color.  |
Chemistry World January 19, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Quantum Theory Reveals Why Lead Poisons Lead is one heavy metal. It can cause irreversible blood, brain, kidney, and liver damage. But why is it so toxic? Using quantum chemistry and enzyme model compounds, researchers now believe they have the answer.  |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Mike Sutton |
A reluctant chemist A century after Francois Auguste Victor Grignard's Nobel prize, organic chemists are still using the reagents he developed.  |
Wired January 18, 2008 Miyoko Ohtake |
Chemist Spins His Cyclotron to Create Impossibly Heavy Metals New research allows mutations of metal elements to include more atoms.  |
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 David Barden |
Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Peer review by live blogging Blogging can immediately bring together expert opinion on a given topic. Poorly reviewed papers claiming novelty can be expected to be rapidly dissected in the blogosphere, as some chemists have found out.  |
Chemistry World January 10, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Nitrenium hugs stabilize positively rare complexes Everyone knows that like charges repel one another. But unusual coordination compounds bearing cationic ligands bound to cationic metals have been prepared by scientists in Israel, opening up fresh opportunities for organic transformations.  |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve.  |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that.  |
Chemistry World June 11, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
'Electronic glue' makes nanocrystals connect American chemists have developed an 'electronic glue' to link nanocrystals together - allowing groups of the crystals to be highly conductive.  |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Artificial DNA stacks metal atoms In recent years, researchers have replaced some of DNA's natural bases with those that attach to metal atoms in order to coax DNA to organize metal ions into tiny structures. Researchers in Japan have tapped the method to form stacks of single metal ions.  |
Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Keeping it Green Some chemistry enthusiastically labeled as green may be nothing of the kind, warn researchers who worry that mediocre -- if well-meaning -- science is damaging their subject.  |
Chemistry World June 25, 2012 |
Chemistry in Evolution In "Evolution's Destiny," the authors explore the role of chemistry in evolution, and in particular the changing role of inorganic elements in the evolution of the ecosystem.  |
Chemistry World December 19, 2012 Paul Duckmanton |
Inorganic chemistry The depth of coverage of topics in Inorganic Chemistry by R. Gopalan, seems variable in comparison to other inorganic chemistry textbooks.  |
Chemistry World January 26, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Blue LEDs may be caught in a trap Blue LEDs are notoriously difficult to make, which has slowed down the production of cheap, highly efficient white LED light bulbs. Now, UK scientists think they know why.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 45 |
Star Picks Chemistry Web sites: Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources... Doing Chemistry... Chemistry Question...  |
Chemistry World August 8, 2013 Victoria Druce |
Chemistry: the impure science Chemistry: the impure science by Bensaude-Vincent and Simon, delves into the past to assert the foundations of a modern chemistry, with a concluding chapter that might propel the subject into an ethically sound and influential future.  |
Chemistry World June 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success  |
Chemistry World April 30, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Anton Toutov: The power of potassium Toutov says the potassium catalyst he has developed costs only about $30 per mole, or less. 'It is safer and non-toxic, and a lot more cost-effective,' he states.  |
Chemistry World June 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Chemists are human. Humans are hierarchical. Therefore...well, therefore, you'll find a number of different roles and levels for scientists in a drug company's labs. Here's a rough ordering, from least experienced to most.  |
Chemistry World September 6, 2010 Mike Brown |
Nanocoat for restoring historic paintings New inorganic nanoparticles that simultaneously restore and preserve ancient artworks have been developed by researchers in Italy.  |
Popular Mechanics August 1998 Thomas Klenck |
Water Softeners They make hard water easy to get along with...  |
Chemistry World October 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe investigates the comeback combinatorial chemistry has made in the field of drug discovery  |
Chemistry World May 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Bench Monkey One has to wonder if Pauling, Sacks and Woodward would have ended up like they did if it were not for the very early hands-on experience they got with chemistry. Today's chemistry sets may be safer, but they're also a lot more boring.  |
Chemistry World June 9, 2010 |
Chemistry at Sussex under threat again The department, which topped The Guardian's 2010 university league table for chemistry, is set to lose some 40 per cent of its faculty, according to Phil Parsons, head of organic chemistry at Sussex.  |
Chemistry World December 2007 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: The Gift of Science A weekend trip to your local toy shop may reveal a vast array of choices for the budding chemist.  |
Chemistry World November 24, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Boron and beryllium finally shake hands Beryllium bis(diazaborolyl) features the first non-cluster bond between boron and beryllium.  |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Dick Wife An interview with the chemical IT scientist and co-founder of SORD, a scientific publishing company that seeks to solve the problem of organizing the myriad of undocumented chemistry and the chaotic mess of the commercial database.  |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Karl Collins |
An 'Aye' for details Today, using methods developed by masters of their trade, the modern greats of total synthesis demonstrate that almost any molecule can be prepared given time and effort.  |
Chemistry World September 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author remembers leaving the ivory towers of academe to trade 'unusual and beautiful' for 'useful'  |
Chemistry World June 5, 2011 James Mitchell Crow |
Nanoparticles scrub up a treat in hot water bath Upping the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles can be as simple as a good wash in hot water, UK chemists have shown.  |
Chemistry World October 12, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Flow Reactors Enter the Rapids Continuous flow chemistry's promise to shake up synthesis gathered momentum this month, with the first Uniqsis Flow Chemistry Symposium.  |
Chemistry World August 29, 2006 |
Conference Blog About 3000 chemists have gathered in Budapest, Hungary, for the first European Chemistry Congress: Radish Sango on the Menu... Robots in the Lab... Speed Chemistry... etc.  |
Chemistry World May 2008 Dylan Stiles |
Bench Monkey It takes at least five years before an average chemistry student can form a hypothesis and test it in a laboratory. Even the most gifted stars of the field don't emerge until their mid-twenties.  |
Chemistry World May 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
New Research Centres for UK Chemistry Two research centres hoping to add new dimensions to UK chemistry were officially launched last week.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible.  |