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Chemistry World
June 17, 2013
Eleanor Merritt
Switching chirality in amino acids An international team of scientists has developed a purely chemical approach to interconvert L- and D-amino acids. This method could rival enzymatic routes used in industry, and enable cheaper production of some pharmaceuticals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 6, 2006
Michael Gross
Selective Shortcut Chemists have developed a simple catalyst that speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in many complex syntheses. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 16, 2009
Tom Bond
Catalyst free carbon-carbon bond formation The method offers an environmentally friendly way to form one of the most important bonds in organic synthesis. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 6, 2013
Simon Hadlington
Greener route to carboxylic acids Chemists in Israel have developed a new way to oxidize primary alcohols to carboxylic acids, using water as both the reaction solvent and the source of oxygen. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 15, 2010
Simon Hadlington
Synthetic enzyme catalyses Diels-Alder reaction The reaction is key to many organic syntheses and suggests that artificial enzymes could soon become part of the synthetic chemist's toolkit. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 19, 2010
Simon Hadlington
Forcing stereoselectivity on reactive cations Chemists in the US have devised a dual catalyst strategy to tame the highly reactive iminium ion to give a high degree of stereochemical control over subsequent reactions of the ion. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 1, 2009
Hayley Birch
How light gave life a helping hand A new theory for how 'handedness' in organic molecules evolved has been proposed by Dutch scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 2, 2014
Tim Wogan
Miller's forgotten experiments point to primitive protein genesis Stanley Miller's experiments are still adding to our understanding of prebiotic Earth. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 8, 2008
Mark Peplow
Meteorite Source for Life's Handedness Scientists have long speculated that life's preference for left-handed amino acids may have been triggered by compounds brought to Earth by meteorites. Now they've shown exactly how two crucial steps in this process could happen. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 16, 2013
Harriet Brewerton
Accelerating stereochemical analysis A chemosensor has been developed by scientists in the US to speed up the quantitative stereochemical analysis of chiral amino alcohols and diamines. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 20, 2007
Lewis Brindley
New Catalyst Rings the Changes Organic chemists in the US have developed a method to control the stereochemistry of a useful intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 2, 2007
Philip Ball
Giving Life a Hand Why are proteins left-handed and nucleic acids right-handed? Once offered only a few sketchy theories, scientists have found more alternatives for creating homochirality. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 14, 2014
Simon Hadlington
Chemists make headway on C--H activation challenges Jin-Quan Yu's group at the Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California, have synthesized a library of synthetic chiral amino acids which could have applications in the pharmaceutical industry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 21, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Esters Made Easy with Indium Indium is the basis of a novel catalyst designed to make useful cyclic esters. This catalyst could greatly simplify the production of chiral dihydropyranones, important structural elements in many natural products and 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
March 25, 2011
Simon Hadlington
New synthesis for chiral anticancer compound The promising anticancer compound nutlin-3 is likely to become more widely available to researchers thanks to a new synthetic protocol developed by US chemists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 5, 2012
Simon Perks
Chiral separation with micro-flows How do you separate enantiomers without any kind of chiral recognition between molecules? The answer it seems is to use asymmetric flow in a micro-fluidic channel. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 26, 2007
Richard Van Noorden
Shortcut Protein Synthesis Ditches Amino Acids Chinese chemists have demonstrated a speedy way to make polypeptides by avoiding the costly tedium of linking together amino acids. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 1, 2006
Michael Gross
New Twists on Catalysis Chemists around the world have discovered several new twists to improve the performance of asymmetric catalysts in hydrogenation reactions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 13, 2008
Richard Van Noorden
Asymmetric ketone catalysis gets pharma-scale makeover An asymmetric catalysis reaction limited to laboratory syntheses has received a makeover that could see it used on a large scale by drug-makers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 6, 2015
Abigail Hallowes
From chip fat to biofuel Researchers from Singapore and China have developed a cheap and green catalytic system for turning fatty acids into fuel that doesn't require hydrogen or a solvent. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 28, 2010
Mike Brown
Producing hydrogen from sea water A new catalyst that generates hydrogen from sea water has been developed by scientists in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 17, 2008
Simon Hadlington
Catalyst flexes for extra control US chemists have developed a new type of catalyst capable of exerting high stereochemical control over olefin metathesis reactions mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 3, 2011
Erica Wise
A Model for the Single Chirality of Life The boiling solutions in prebiotic hot springs could shed light on the emergence of a single chiral form of biomolecules in nature, say Spanish scientists. 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
November 26, 2010
Amaya Camara-Campos
Enriching the origin of life theory An enantioenrichment of the amino acid valine, which could shed light on the origin of chirality on Earth, has been achieved by scientists in Spain. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 15, 2014
Jenifer Mizen
Freeze-dried cells make better biocatalysts A biocatalytic cascade using mashed-up cells has overcome extraction and solubility problems associated with using enzymes in chemical syntheses. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 7, 2011
Phillip Broadwith
Possible Origin of Chirality in the Rna World Given a tiny push one way or the other, simple racemic precursors can lead to the chiral building blocks of RNA using a combination of chemical and physical factors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 18, 2011
Steve Down
Cofactor Control of Catalysis Enantioselectivity Scientists have used cofactors to control the enantioselectivity of supramolecular transition metal catalysts, enabling the asymmetric hydrogenation of a series of acrylates and related compounds with remarkably high selectivities. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 19, 2009
Hayley Birch
Chiral metals shape up for catalysis Dutch and Israeli scientists have found a way to induce the chirality usually only found in organic materials in palladium. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 17, 2009
Simon Hadlington
Single catalyst gives two products from racemic mixture Chemists in the US have demonstrated a remarkable reaction in which a single catalyst can transform a racemic mixture - molecules identical in every way except for their chirality - into two distinct enantiomerically pure products. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 4, 2008
Fred Campbell
Two catalysts better than one US researchers have cracked a long standing problem in chemical synthesis - the catalytic alpha-alkylation of aldehydes - by combining two catalysts in one pot. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 26, 2015
Victoria Richards
Crystalline sponge method strikes again Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 6, 2008
Simon Hadlington
Synthetic Enzymes Designed by Computer Scientists in the US have designed and built an artificial enzyme from scratch. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 30, 2013
Andy Extance
Catalyst duo exerts powerful stereocontrol Chemists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, have teamed chiral catalysts in pairs to selectively drive a reaction towards desired stereoisomeric products with high selectivity. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 1, 2011
Hayley Birch
Nanoparticles help reveal hidden fingerprints A technique using gold nanoparticles in combination with antibodies has shown promising results for enhancing fingerprints that are over a week old. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 9, 2010
Mike Brown
Going for silver: green plastic production Scientists in the US have identified a new class of catalyst based on subnanometer clusters of three silver atoms that could provide a greener route to propylene oxide - a key intermediate used to make thousands of everyday products mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 13, 2013
James Mitchell Crow
Tapping proton power for enantioselective synthesis A simple proton is the key to a novel approach by US-based chemists to synthesize chiral amines and alcohols -- a structural motif common to many organic molecules with pharmaceutical promise. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 21, 2011
David Barden
Close encounter makes modifying proteins easy Chemists in the US have now developed a powerful strategy for selectively modifying the side-chains of proteins, which they hope will enable the creation of new tools to investigate protein interactions involved in human diseases. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 23, 2009
Hayley Birch
Speeding up screening for chiral catalysts U.S. researchers say their method represents a 'standard workhorse' for discovery and optimisation of chiral catalysts, such as those widely used by the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 12, 2015
Andy Extance
'Chemical search engine' backs alternative route to life A key class of biological molecules neglected in the search for life's chemical origins could have appeared spontaneously before organisms, UK scientists say. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 23, 2015
Karl Collins
Scratching chiral surfaces There are numerous challenges to developing reactions that exploit chiral surfaces, or employ molecular modifiers (ligands) to create a chiral surface environment and control the stereoselectivity of a transformation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 3, 2014
Debbie Houghton
Engineered metalloenzyme catalyses Friedel -- Crafts reaction Reprogramming the genetic code of bacteria to incorporate an unnatural amino acid has allowed scientists in the Netherlands to create a new metalloenzyme capable of catalyzing an enantioselective reaction. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 8, 2011
Jon Cartwright
Carbon nanotubes - a boon for chiral catalysts Researchers in China have created a new catalyst that could help in the production of chiral molecules for medical drugs. The catalyst, which consists of platinum nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, is the most active of its type ever reported. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 26, 2006
Victoria Gill
Volcanoes Reveal the Secret of the Origin of Life Life began with a chemical reaction under the sea over four billion years ago. That is the claim of a German scientist whose team has recreated a crucial part of the reaction, synthesizing all the necessary ingredients for a living organism. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 26, 2007
Tom Westgate
Counterion Does the Twist US chemists have achieved a breakthrough in the design of catalysts that selectively produce chiral compounds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 30, 2011
Hayley Birch
Amino acid synthesis hints at how the genetic code expanded The detailed pathway for the biosynthesis of pyrrolysine - the 22nd and latest amino acid to be discovered - has been outlined by US researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 13, 2015
Heather Powell
Study probes role of chemical corruption in origin of life Researchers are incorporating what they describe as defective compounds into their experiments to help them understand how the first molecules of life formed. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 21, 2009
James Urquhart
Catalyst kinetics revealed French and UK scientists have developed a spectroscopy technique that has elucidated the reaction mechanism of a silver-alumina catalyst. 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