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Chemistry World February 18, 2010 Hayley Birch |
First sugars needed silicates to survive Earth's first complex sugars could have formed with a little help from silicate ions, according to a new study by US chemists.  |
Chemistry World January 17, 2014 Katia Moskvitch |
Life may have begun in a tiny water droplet Chemical reactions run much faster and more efficiently when they take place in tiny droplets rather than in freestanding water -- such as a puddle or a lake, say researchers.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 46 David Bradley |
The Sticky Non-Stick Stuff One property of Teflon that is less familiar is that under certain circumstances it is among the most sticky of materials.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World April 29, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Catalyst challenges microbes' supremacy An inorganic catalyst could challenge microbial fermentation of sugars into lactic acid derivatives to provide feedstocks for renewable biodegradeable plastics and green solvent and chemical production.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World November 2007 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible It is inevitable that the origins of life on Earth will be forever shrouded in mystery.  |
Chemistry World December 8, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Meteorites hitting oceans may have kick-started life Japanese scientists have done laboratory experiments to test the idea.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World July 20, 2006 Jessica Ebert |
Golden Touch for Amines Aminobenzene chemicals are used to make anything from dyes to pharmaceuticals, and now scientists have found a way to produce them in a more efficient way using a gold catalyst.  |
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.  |
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  |
Chemistry World December 12, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Aqueous Fischer-Tropsch is Clean and Green Chinese chemists have carried out the Fischer-Tropsch reaction in water for the first time, bringing a greener route to hydrocarbon fuels a step closer.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World April 14, 2015 Anthony King |
Chemicals formed on meteorites may have started life on Earth The molecules that kick-started life on primordial Earth could have been made in space and delivered by meteorites, according to researchers in Italy.  |
Chemistry World September 16, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Computer simulations point to formamide as prebiotic intermediate in 'Miller' mixtures Formamide may have played a key role in the genesis of life  |
Chemistry World February 11, 2013 Philip Ball |
A (chemical) potential theory of life's origin This theory says that life arose at hydrothermal vents, not merely because these provide heat and the ingredients for making complex organics but because they create sustained gradients of ion concentration.  |
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.  |
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  |
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.  |
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 August 20, 2008 |
Gold's Magic Number A new gold catalyst developed by UK chemists can catalyse hydrocarbon oxidation, using O 2 as the only oxidant. But catalyst particle size is critical - above 2nm diameter, the catalyst loses all activity.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Strychnine in just six steps Strychnine, best known as a poison but also used medicinally as a stimulant, can now be synthesised in just six steps, say US scientists.  |
Chemistry World January 17, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Sugars synthesised with help of promiscuous enzyme European researchers have discovered a new way to make synthetically elusive sugar molecules that could lead to novel vaccine candidates and other medically important compounds.  |
Chemistry World April 10, 2008 Mark Peplow |
'Pot-in-a-Pot' Technique Makes Impossible Cascade Reactions Easy A simple technique that nests a series of reaction vessels could help chemists avoid the tedium and expense of purifying organic compounds after each step of a long synthesis.  |
Chemistry World May 1, 2014 James Urquhart |
Ancient oceans' metals mimicked metabolism Primitive metabolism of sugar phosphates may have started spontaneously in ancient oceans around 4 billion years ago and given rise to life, according to UK researchers.  |
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Karl Collins |
Oxidation station Small molecules are making significant inroads -- with reactivity and selectivity approaching levels previously thought unachievable.  |
Chemistry World August 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
C-H oxidation proves its worth US researchers are going against the grain of total synthesis and developing new approaches to complex molecules.  |
Chemistry World August 6, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
3D printed reactionware hots up UK researchers have shown that it is possible to carry out a range of hydrothermal chemical syntheses in sealed reactors made from 3D printed polypropylene.  |
Chemistry World November 26, 2012 Laura Howes |
Protein coat prepares catalyst for cascades By protecting a transition metal catalyst with a protein coat, scientists have managed to couple up biocatalysts and chemical catalysts to perform a cascade reaction.  |
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 January 22, 2014 Anna Simpson |
Magdalena Titirici: Biowaste conversion Research in the Titirici group involves trying to create porous carbon materials from renewable resources such as lignin, cellulose and chitin, as well municipal and agricultural wastes.  |
Chemistry World April 25, 2010 Hayley Birch |
New strategy yields best ever catalyst for ammonia decomposition US researchers have developed a new strategy for predicting bimetallic catalysts.  |
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Rachel Cooper |
Self-contained chemical synthesis Scientists in the UK have used reactors made on a 3D printer to complete a three stage organic synthesis.  |
Chemistry World October 16, 2015 Philippa Matthews |
One pot recipe for incompatible catalytic transformations Researchers from the US have demonstrated a new catalyst support structure allowing two incompatible catalysts to work in tandem.  |
Chemistry World May 8, 2014 |
Mandelalide A The recent synthesis of the proposed structure of mandelalide A is a good example of a well-designed route that seamlessly integrates some cutting-edge chemistry.  |
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 September 18, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Bio-petroleum made from sugars James Dumesic's team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to convert simple sugars into hydrocarbons that could be blended to make vehicle fuels that are identical to the ones we use today.  |
Chemistry World September 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Corey Stephenson of Boston University is an expert a type of reaction called photochemical reduction-oxidation. He has charmed photons into performing many chemical tricks, but one is a photoredox dehalogenation using blue light and a ruthenium bipyridyl catalyst.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World May 26, 2015 |
Catching the runaways I think each cohort of industrial chemists has a runaway industrial reaction that defines their generation.  |
Chemistry World April 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic When one attempts the first synthesis of a natural product, the set of challenges are often unknown; which intermediates are either inaccessible or unstable, for instance.  |
Chemistry World January 11, 2007 Victoria Gill |
How to Survive at 400 Degrees C Certain deep-sea residents manage to survive their searingly hot, toxic habitat by making their own food. Chemists in the US have now identified the molecules that make this possible.  |