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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.  |
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.  |
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 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 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.  |
Chemistry World July 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic At first glance rippertenol looks a mere hop-skip-and-jump from its parent. However, a more careful examination reveals a stray methyl group at C1, complicating the synthesis of an already tricky target.  |
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Bolivianine The still-growing and insanely diverse class of terpene natural products is probably responsible for a considerable number of undergraduate headaches.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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 December 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic In a conversation at the beginning of this year, a friend and I considered the most challenging targets available to the total-synthesizer - and maoecrystal V was at the top of the list.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World October 31, 2012 Paul Docherty |
Epicoccin G The class of natural products known as 2,5-diketopiperazines is both broad and synthetically well-trodden. An important sub-class of these targets are found with a sprinkling of sulfur atoms, and seem particularly well-suited to pathogen-bashing.  |
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 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.  |
Chemistry World January 29, 2014 Elisabeth Ratcliffe |
Flow system overcomes reagent incompatibility issues Synthesizing cyclic carbonates could become easier and more efficient thanks to a sequential flow system developed by scientists in the US.  |
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 28, 2015 |
Rubriflordilactone A It's likely that organic chemists have been practicing retrosynthesis in one form or another for at least a century, and certainly for decades before E J Corey formalized the concept in the mid-1990s  |
Chemistry World December 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic An important subclass of marine neurotoxins contains spirocyclic imines. Larger examples such as the pinnatoxins have tended to hog the limelight, but the increasingly prolific Daniel Romo has focused his sights on gymnodimine - a slightly smaller family member.  |
Chemistry World November 27, 2012 Paul Docherty |
Pentalenolactone A methyl ester One team that really gets the Pauson -- Khand reaction or the PKR and all its nuances is that led by Zhen Yang at Peking University in Beijing, China. They recently published a very neat synthesis of the intricate pentalenolactone  |
Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Philip Robinson |
Ultrafast NMR shows the way Chemists have created an ultrafast NMR technique that can 'watch' how chemical reactions occur in real time. They've used the technique to follow the formation of pyrimidines from carbonyls and even identified new intermediates never before thought to be part of the reaction.  |
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
More to Catalysis Than Meets the Eye Catalysts are more than just a reactive surface. Changes beneath a metal's skin can completely change the course of a reaction.  |
Chemistry World November 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Perhaps the most familiar (and dull - they do say that familiarity breeds contempt.) chemical reaction to medicinal chemists is the amide bond formation.  |
Chemistry World January 18, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Bending the rules for arynes Two teams of synthetic and computational chemists in the US have developed complementary explanations for the unusual selectivity observed in reactions of indolynes.  |
Chemistry World May 1, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Kingianin A The capacity for nature to astonish me with architectural ingenuity has remained undimmed. One glance at the kingianin family of natural products did this again -- the remarkable and unusual cyclobutane functionality kindling thoughts of 'how the hell..?'  |
Chemistry World December 2008 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Pseudolaric acid B: regular readers of this column's online incarnation will have noticed that this is the second appearance for this particular synthesis.  |
Chemistry World September 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Maduropeptin chromophore (the active component of a chromopore-protein complex, noted as for its potent antitumor and antibiotic activity) is built of two distinct domains  |
Chemistry World April 12, 2013 Melissae Fellet |
Elusive atmospheric intermediates reveal some secrets Scientists have found further evidence for the existence of an elusive intermediate implicated in chemical reactions that degrade atmospheric pollutants.  |
Chemistry World June 12, 2015 David Bradley |
Copper click chemistry mechanism unravelled Both the mono- and bis-copper pathways are active in the CuAAC reaction, but the latter is kinetically favored.  |
Chemistry World July 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic When it comes to making large natural products, different researchers will often propose identical 'end-game' strategies to complete the target.  |
Chemistry World January 14, 2015 Karl Collins |
Alkynes reverse reactivity Coupling together thiols and alkynes -- both inherently nucleophilic species -- is a tricky prospect.  |
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 May 1, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Click chemistry illuminates embryo development US researchers have smuggled modified sugar molecules into a developing zebrafish embryo and then used 'click chemistry' to snap a fluorescent tag onto them to watch cells and tissues forming.  |
Chemistry World March 22, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Acutumine A burgeoning class of natural products has been found to restrain the immune system. Acutumine is a relatively recent addition to this collection, even though it was first isolated in the 1920s. The potential of these targets has not gone unnoticed in the synthetic community.  |