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Chemistry World October 22, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Isotope effect produces new type of chemical bond New work by researchers shows how substituting isotopes can result in fundamental changes in the nature of chemical bonding.  |
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Philip Ball |
We choose to go to the muon Chemists Mohammad Goli and Shant Shahbazian posit two new light elements. They are muonium (Mu), in which an electron orbits a positively charged muon ( +), and muonic helium (He ), in which an electron orbits a 'nucleus' consisting of an alpha particle and a negative muon.  |
Chemistry World January 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Key Plank of Theoretical Chemistry Rescued Theoretical chemists can breathe a sigh of relief after the publication of a study which shows that a cornerstone of their discipline seems to be intact despite earlier evidence to the contrary.  |
Chemistry World January 12, 2014 Andy Extance |
Rocket reactor forces space hydrogen rethink Scientists have pushed low-temperature experimentation and computational chemistry to their limits to better understand hydrogen fluoride, which astronomers use to study regions of space that are otherwise hard to image.  |
Chemistry World December 9, 2013 Jessica Cocker |
Hydrogen breaks strong bonds with brute force A method developed by Leo Lau of Western University in Canada and colleagues can break C -- H bonds without damaging the rest of the molecule.  |
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Isotope effect seen on single molecule The isotope effect - where the rate of a reaction is altered depending on the presence of a given isotopic atom in the reactant - is a key tool for elucidating reaction mechanisms  |
Chemistry World November 15, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Shedding light on ultracold reactions in space Two teams of researchers in the US and Europe have shown that light can play a bigger role than expected in the nascent field of ultracold atom-ion interactions.  |
Chemistry World July 16, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Strange vibrations Researchers in Taiwan have shown that in a relatively simple molecular system the induced vibrations can inhibit the breaking of the bond and slow the reaction down.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World October 6, 2011 Manisha Lalloo |
Oxygen Isotopes Help to Probe Water's Structure Scientists have used isotopic substitution of oxygen to take a closer look at the molecular structure of water.  |
Chemistry World October 16, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Antimatter Persuaded to React with Matter Matter and antimatter usually destroy each other in a flash of energy and a spray of exotic particles when they meet. Yet the two have been coaxed into into a chemical reaction.  |
Chemistry World April 23, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Green Tea's Secret Tunneling Revealed Scientists have used quantum mechanics to work out why green tea is good for you. The health benefits of the brew are all down to a quirk of the quantum world known as tunneling, they say.  |
Chemistry World March 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Solvated electron mystery solved Researchers have answered a riddle that has been puzzling scientists for decades: why is it that electrons in an aqueous environment appear to exist in two distinct states  |
Chemistry World February 19, 2009 James Urquhart |
Selective catalyst cracks direct peroxide production A team of UK and US scientists have shown how hydrogen peroxide - an industrially important disinfectant and environmentally-friendly oxidizing agent - can be made directly from oxygen and hydrogen.  |
Chemistry World August 10, 2012 Nina Notman |
Tweaked weighing scales help map the island of stability The mass of the heavy element lawrencium has been measured directly for the first time by German scientists.  |
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.  |
Science News October 19, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 15, 1932 The saber-tooth strikes... Dangers of dust in industry described at safety congress... Scientist directs huge magnet in attack to smash atom...  |
Chemistry World July 5, 2007 Michael Gross |
Cold Chemistry Chemical reactions at extremely low temperatures can run at surprisingly fast rates and astrochemists have begun to figure out why.  |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Philip Ball |
Ultra-bright x-rays film molecular reaction A team working at the Stanford Linear Collider in California claims to have made 'the first molecular movie' using ultra-fast x-ray scattering from molecules as they undergo a chemical reaction.  |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 |
Power Sources: Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Heat, Vibration and Fusion Summaries of how each of these power sources work to create energy.  |
Chemistry World July 1, 2013 Laura Howes |
Quantum tunnelling in space Interstellar dust clouds might be host to more chemistry than previously imagined.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World November 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Coupled Enzymes May Spawn New Catalysts Chemists at the University of Oxford have created a new type of catalyst by attaching two enzymes to a microscopic flake of graphite. The system could be tailored to catalyze a range of reactions, the researchers say.  |
Chemistry World November 6, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas Two chemical reactions key to producing future fuels can be linked together in a single membrane-based reactor to increase their efficiency, say Chinese chemists.  |
Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Philip Ball |
Water's Surface is Acidic Pure, neutral water has an acid skin. This striking notion has now been confirmed by calculations and tests by an international team of scientists. The finding could be significant for a number of disciplines.  |
Chemistry World November 12, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Microscope Reveals Catalyst Secrets A promising technique for watching catalysts in action could provide new insights into how they work, report scientists in the Netherlands.  |
Science News January 31, 2004 |
TimeLine: January 27, 1934 Flash-over at 125,000 volts... 200-inch telescope mirror to be poured of special glass... Heavy hydrogen-lithium bombardment yields helium  |
Chemistry World March 22, 2007 Michael Gross |
Eat Isotopes to Live Longer Food containing heavy isotopes of hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen could slow down the aging process. That's the claim of a biochemist who suggests that seeding key biological molecules with deuterium or carbon-13 could drastically reduce oxidative damage or even avert it altogether.  |
Chemistry World February 26, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Your Hair Knows Where You've Been From a single strand of hair, scientists can now determine where a person has been living recently.  |
Chemistry World August 2011 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball wonders to what extent molecular structures are metaphorical and philosophical.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World June 18, 2013 Rowan Frame |
Hydrogen generation using sunlight Scientists from Spain have found a catalyst that can use sunlight to power an important industrial reaction for the production of hydrogen at ambient temperatures.  |
Chemistry World April 15, 2012 Jon Evans |
Synthetic chemists print labware to order Not only do 3D printers offer the possibility of producing vessels with much more complex architectures, but the vessels can be designed to influence the course of the reaction or even to take part in it.  |
Chemistry World October 16, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Helium happily shares electrons to create dianions Helium invariably sits with its arms tightly folded and refuses to participate in chemistry, but turns out to be surprisingly generous when it is in the right environment, willing to donate not just one but two electrons to neighboring species.  |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2007 Nathan Parmelee |
Quick Take: H&R Block Unloads Subprime Business H&R Block is up nearly 4% today, simply for selling its subprime mortgage business, Option One Mortgage.  |
Chemistry World February 22, 2012 Patrick Walter |
Cyclotron remedy for imaging isotope shortages The new technology will result in the decentralization of the production of technetium-99m, with hospitals making the isotope on demand using tabletop cyclotrons.  |
Chemistry World November 3, 2010 Andy Extance |
Hydrogen bond set to be redefined The world authority on chemical nomenclature is preparing to scrap the familiar hydrogen bond definition, in light of recent evidence about its true nature.  |
Chemistry World March 2, 2010 Anna Lewcock |
New high tech nuclear lab for EU A new state-of-the-art facility in Germany will significantly boost Europe's ability to identify and characterise minute traces of nuclear material as part of ongoing safeguarding and non-proliferation activities.  |
Chemistry World September 30, 2009 Simon Haddlington |
Porous networks trap reactive intermediates Chemists in Japan have shown how it is possible to take sequential x-ray snapshots of chemical reactions taking place within molecular-sized 'reaction chambers', capturing the crystal structures of short-lived reactive intermediates.  |
Chemistry World July 3, 2014 Andrea Sella |
Aston's mass spectrograph Francis Aston British chemist (1877 -- 1945), Developed a mass spectrograph and was awarded the Nobel prize for discovering isotopes of several elements  |
Chemistry World January 6, 2016 Jon Cartwright |
Graphene sieves deuterium from hydrogen Materials composed of a single layer of atoms, such as graphene, can separate hydrogen and deuterium more effectively than almost any other process.  |
Chemistry World February 20, 2012 James Urquhart |
Unusual kinetics of catalyst revealed US researchers have elucidated the unusual reaction kinetics of C-H activation by the palladium(II) catalyst (Pd(OAc) 2).  |
Chemistry World November 3, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
IR spectroscopy stretches knowledge of hydrogen bonding Scientists in Denmark have, for the first time, detected a hydrogen bond between an N -- H and phosphorus in the gas phase.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World November 2007 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline Chemists are finally going with the flow.  |
Information Today May 5, 2011 Robert E. Buntrock |
SciPlanner: Latest Addition to the CAS Suite of Programs In over a century of existence, Chemical Abstract Service has become the premier source of chemical information.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World October 1, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Excess protons play hopscotch in water Scientists in the US have observed how excess protons move through water.  |
Chemistry World December 16, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Radical experiment assesses interstellar nitrogen Radical reactions are challenging to measure at cold temperatures, but an international team of researchers have recently clocked the rate for atomic nitrogen and hydroxyl radicals at 56K.  |