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Chemistry World
March 21, 2007
Richard Van Noorden
Forcing a Reaction US chemists have forced molecules to react by ripping their bonds apart with ultrasound. The scientists carefully stretched one targeted bond until it snapped, guiding the molecule's subsequent reaction into pathways forbidden by conventional chemistry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 16, 2006
Katharine Sanderson
Switching Off Polymerisation in the Dark With summer in full swing, the world of polymer science is about to get a boost following news that sunlight can kick-start living polymerisation reactions. The twist is that the reaction stops in the dark. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 25, 2014
James Urquhart
Nanomolar chemistry enables 1500 experiments in a single day Chemists have conducted over 1500 chemistry experiments in under a day thanks to a miniaturized, high throughput automation platform they developed for identifying how synthetic molecules react under various conditions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 13, 2011
Sarah Corcoran
Unclogging the problems of flow chemistry US scientists have found a way to stop solid byproducts clogging channels in continuous flow reactors, a problem that has hampered their progress for use in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 17, 2009
Hayley Birch
Acrylic beads promise scalable organocatalyst production Norwegian scientists have developed a new, more efficient approach to synthesizing polymer beads containing proline and its derivatives, for use in organocatalysis. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 11, 2007
Jonathan Edwards
'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 13, 2008
Hayley Birch
Reactions Studied by Stop Motion Japanese and Israeli scientists have developed a technique that can track whole-molecule changes that occur during extremely rapid reactions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 6, 2009
Nina Notman
Torn catalysts help polymers heal themselves Catalysts that are activated by a mechanical force tearing them in two have been designed by Dutch scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 18, 2012
Elinor Richards
Homogeneous Catalyst Recovery Made Easier Scientists have now found a way to recover homogeneous catalysts at the end of a chemical reaction that doesn't suffer from the slow reaction rates that affect current catalyst recovery systems. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 9, 2011
James Mitchell Crow
High-throughput catalyst screening for the masses Using nothing more than the standard chemistry lab equipment, researchers in the US have successfully turned the discovery of new catalytic reactions into a high-throughput process. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 25, 2013
Derek Lowe
Name reactions: how does the label stick? Some of these names go back to the 19th century, and many more of them come from the first decades of the 20th. Once in a while, I wonder if the tradition is dying out. Are we still naming chemical reactions after their discoverers? mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 2007
Derek Lowe
Column: In the Pipeline Chemists are finally going with the flow. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 6, 2009
Nina Notman
Polymers feel the force A new way to make force-sensitive polymers that respond to stress by changing colour has been designed by a multidisciplinary team in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 10, 2008
Jonathan Edwards
Textbook Reaction Has a Subtle Twist The SN2 bimolecular nucleophilic substitution, a textbook reaction fundamental to organic synthesis, has a subtle twist, according to researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 15, 2012
Melissae Fellet
Synthesis by mass spectrometry Chemists have used mass spectrometry, commonly used to analyze molecules, to synthesize them on the microscale. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 28, 2015
Karl Collins
A witches' brew for trifluoromethylation Trifluoromethylating phenols is one example of a reaction that would be incredibly useful when attempting to tune the chemical and biological properties of molecules for pharmaceutical and agrochemical research. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 25, 2014
Derek Lowe
Engineering serendipity At this stage in the world of organic chemistry, you'd have to think that many of the great reactions that can be stumbled across with known reagents have probably been found. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 17, 2011
James Urquhart
A Thermoset Plastic That Bends Like a Thermoplastic French scientists have created a new lightweight plastic that is as strong and stable as other thermoset materials such as Bakelite, yet can be easily reworked and reshaped when heated. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 27, 2013
Emma Eley
Sustainable iron catalyst for clean hydrogenation An international team of chemists has reported a clean and green way to perform one of the most important industrial reactions for pharmaceutical and petrochemical synthesis. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 30, 2007
Lewis Brindley
New Superabsorbents to Clean up Future Oil Spills Chemists in Japan have developed a new class of superabsorbent polymers that can swell to hundreds of times their weight by soaking up nonpolar organic solvents. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 29, 2012
Tegan Thomas
Hair and polymers click In the search for new haircare products, scientists in the UK have developed a new method to chemically modify hair with polymers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 2008
Dylan Stiles
Column: Bench Monkey Cast a skeptical eye over new ideas in chemistry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 22, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Conveyor belt hydrogel Chemists in Japan have developed an oscillating polymer gel that produces 'waves' which can push or pump a cargo along its surface. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 28, 2013
Anthony King
Polymer tied in celtic knots Celtic knots and ancient art have inspired a new way of synthesizing polymers. The slow-motion method of controlling polymer growth produces a single chain that when linked repeatedly, intricately wraps around itself to form a dense structure. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 6, 2007
Lewis Brindley
Chemists Make Fullerene Necklace Spanish scientists have strung fullerene buckyballs together to produce a polymer with unique electronic properties. The creation of these polymers has demonstrated a new approach to designing novel materials. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 9, 2009
Lewis Brindley
Daisy-chain polymers bring artificial muscles a step closer American chemists have made molecular 'daisy-chains' containing threaded rings that can be pulled taut or slackened by chemical stimuli. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 23, 2013
Manisha Lalloo
NMR thermometer takes reactor's temperature Scientists in the US have used NMR to create temperature maps of reactions taking place inside catalytic reactors. Their technique opens the door to an easy, non-invasive way to discover hot and cold 'spots' inside reactors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 26, 2012
Derek Lowe
Under pressure Someone interviewing for a synthetic chemistry position had better know his or her organic chemistry. It's fair to ask questions that will make sure of that. But does a candidate need to know the curly-arrow details of reactions that they'll never run? mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 30, 2015
Simon Hadlington
Floppy polymer defies convention to form rigid framework Chemists in the US have turned received wisdom on its head by using floppy, linear polymers to construct a rigid, crystalline, three-dimensional metal -- organic framework. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 11, 2006
Simon Hadlington
Spin Doctors Find New Way to Make Skin Scaffold Researchers have developed a new type of polymer scaffold support for growing cultured human skin cells. The team showed that the mechanical and geometric properties of the scaffold are far more important than any specific chemical property. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 3, 2007
Simon Hadlington
Making Light Work of Drug Release UK researchers have borrowed a technique from organic synthetic chemistry to develop a new type of drug-release system that is activated by light. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 10, 2006
Victoria Gill
Healing Threads Spun From Living Cells Researchers have successfully made microthreads from polymers containing living cells, using a technique called electrospinning. These biologically active threads could be formed into medical scaffolds, to deliver cells directly to tissue and promote healing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 3, 2008
Simon Hadlington
Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple? mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 29, 2015
Derek Lowe
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 15, 2011
Laura Howes
Cyclodextrin Dimer Becomes Synthetic Polymerase Chemists have made an artificial polymerase that doesn't need a metal catalyst or organic solvents and is more efficient than current bioinspired approaches. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 4, 2010
Carol Stanier
Colourful 'green' polymers A new environmentally friendly concept in functionalising polymers allows coloured dye to be integrated directly into polymers that can be used in clothes and packaging, say UK scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 12, 2006
Richard Van Noorden
Lasers on the Energy Ski Slope Researchers have shown that intense laser-light pulses can act as catalysts, controlling the end products of a chemical reaction without themselves being absorbed. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 22, 2012
Charlie Quigg
Roll up, roll up! Scientists in India - inspired by research on making water run uphill - have developed a technique that enables a polymer cylinder to not only autonomously climb an incline but carry a weight with it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 14, 2009
Phillip Broadwith
Multicomponent reactions step up a gear Dutch chemists have taken multicomponent reactions to the next level, combining a total of eight different starting materials in a single flask, bringing together three different multicomponent reactions and making nine new bonds in a single step. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 31, 2010
Simon Hadlington
Ketene comes in from the cold The ketene group, -C=C=O, is capable of rich and diverse chemistry, says Craig Hawker of the University of California, Santa Barbara mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 25, 2007
Richard Van Noorden
Water Surprise for Atmospheric Scientists Lone water molecules can catalyze reactions between atmospheric gases, scientists have confirmed, throwing a wrench in the works of supposedly simple atmospheric chemistry. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Technology Research News
June 29, 2005
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 9, 2006
Katharine Sanderson
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 2009
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 8, 2015
Anthony King
Click chemistry creates precision polymers Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have an efficient strategy that allows them to synthesize a new family of unimolecular, sequence- and stereo-defined polymers using click chemistry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 20, 2006
Victoria Gill
Polymer Boosts Battery Power It might seem like a defibrillator and a hybrid car have very little in common, but researchers developed a polymer that could have a profound effect on them both. mark for My Articles similar articles