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Chemistry World
July 13, 2015
Philip Ball
First snapshot of elusive intermediate supplies surprise A team near Zurich in Switzerland, has been able to take a single-molecule snapshot of an intermediate in a common class of organic reactions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 14, 2012
David Bradley
Tripling up on boron bonds Carbon and nitrogen are well known for their triple bonds, but making stable compounds with a triple bond between two boron atoms hadn't been achieved despite the computational possibilities. Until now. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 27, 2009
Simon Hadlington
A simple way to join an olefin to an arene Chemists in the US have developed a simple and effective way to carry out a key class of reaction in organic synthesis - the bolting an olefin to an aromatic ring. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 2, 2013
Paul Docherty
Flueggine A One of the most prolific sources of biologically active natural products is traditional medicines -- whose active components can be exceptionally potent. The Euphorbiaceae family of plants is a productive source of medicinal targets, including the Securinega alkaloids. 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
March 2012
Paul Docherty
Column: Totally Synthetic Ring strain is a fascinating phenomenon - one that is best understood with plastic modelling kits, wearing safety specs for ring sizes of four or less. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 2012
Paul Docherty
Column: Totally Synthetic What a Japanese team demonstrates in this synthesis of dragmacidin D is the state of the art, uniting all the key fragments using C-H bond couplings. mark for My Articles similar articles
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
June 2011
Column: Totally Synthetic I've never heard of the Polonovski-Potier reaction, the keystone of a remarkable synthesis by a team led by Tohru Fukuyama at the University of Tokyo, Japan. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 2009
Paul Docherty
Column: Totally Synthetic In the search for new biologically active natural products, sometimes a team isolating a new compound family will be lucky enough to find one active member. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
January 8, 2014
Karl Collins
Oxidation station Small molecules are making significant inroads -- with reactivity and selectivity approaching levels previously thought unachievable. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 2012
Lead-oriented synthesis Ian Churcher and Alan Nadin call for the development of more robust synthetic tools to improve small molecule survival rates in the perilous journey from lead to drug mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 5, 2013
Paul Docherty
Marcfortines B & C Natural product isolation is generally a tale of a journey to an obscure or inaccessible location, followed by pulping a harmless plant or marine sponge to get at compounds made by some bacteria hiding out in the core. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 28, 2013
Edward Anderson
More dead ends and detours en route to successful total synthesis In this book Miguel A Sierra and his co-authors revisit their 2004 coverage of 'tales of the unexpected' in complex molecule total synthesis. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 22, 2012
Ross McLaren
Back to the future: old reactions to help the new Researchers from the US have delved into the history of organic chemistry to help chemists better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 2011
Paul Docherty
Column: Totally Synthetic Reactions in the synthesis of guanacastepene N. Discovered in fungi growing on trees in the Guanacaste conservation area in Costa Rica, several syntheses of this family have appeared in the decade since their isolation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 2012
Paul Docherty
Column: Totally Synthetic Detecting rearrangements still seems like an abstract ability for aspiring synthetic chemists. Erick Carreira's synthesis of indoxamycin B is a great case in point, employing two rearrangement reactions. 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
March 24, 2015
Karl Collins
Back to basics for silylation While silicon is probably most familiar in organic synthesis as part of protecting groups, its utility extends much further. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 11, 2012
Ian Le Guillou
Turbo-charged Diels-Alder reaction The Diels - Alder reaction is one that sticks in the mind of even the most reluctant chemistry student -- there is a certain elegance in the ring formation from an alkene and diene. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 9, 2010
Phillip Broadwith
Iron catalyst breaks the mold An iron catalyst that is not only greener than many of its precious metal competitors, but also catalyses reactions that they can't, could open new avenues in transition metal catalysis, say Chinese researchers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 30, 2013
Paul Docherty
Melotenine A Chirality, where would we be without you? Often the bane of the synthetic chemist's life, the challenge of asymmetry is perhaps what makes total synthesis so endlessly intriguing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 2008
Column: In the pipeline Problems develop when there are too few workhorse reactions, which may well generate compounds that are too similar to each other. Are we at that stage now? 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
August 2007
Derek Lowe
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 2007
Derek Lowe
Opinion: In the Pipeline Natural products can be ridiculously complicated. The sheer difficulty of the enterprise is traditionally what made pharmaceutical companies hire people who had worked in total synthesis. But, is total synthesis research still worth the effort? mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 1, 2014
Karl Collins
Twisting activity from amides When I think of asymmetric aldol reactions, what immediately springs to mind is using boron to control enolate geometry and chiral auxiliaries to impart facial selectivity in the addition step. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 4, 2009
James Urquhart
Easier ester synthesis Researchers in the US have shown how oxygen-coated gold nanoparticles can selectively oxidise a variety of alcohols and aldehydes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 2, 2013
Amy Middleton-Gear
Homogeneous catalyst made to act more like an enzyme Homogeneous catalytic systems which display selectivity in a mixture of similar substrates are rare. Now scientists have shown that encapsulating a homogeneous catalyst in a supramolecular host can give it a more discerning nature. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 25, 2015
Derek Lowe
Spice up your compounds You and your team are optimizing a lead compound, as medicinal chemists are wont to do -- varying its structure to improve its potency, selectivity and other properties. mark for My Articles similar articles