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Chemistry World August 2008 |
Column: Bench Monkey Dylan Stiles touches on the 299 ways to convert an alcohol to an aldehyde or ketone  |
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 October 23, 2013 Emma Eley |
Synthesis by sunlight Sustainable oxidation reactions can be performed with inexpensive and readily available photovoltaic cells  |
Information Today July 2, 2015 |
Thieme Chemistry Updates Synthetic Organic Chemistry Resource Thieme Chemistry rolled out the newest release of its Science of Synthesis 4.1, which is a full-text resource for methods and experimental procedures in synthetic organic chemistry.  |
Chemistry World January 13, 2011 Mike Brown |
Palladium helps gold catalyst go green Researchers have developed a catalyst that efficiently converts toluene into a useful industrial intermediate in a much greener process than traditional methods.  |
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 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 June 19, 2013 John Hayward |
Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide.  |
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Alexander Archibald |
Chemistry in the atmosphere The Mechanisms of Atmospheric Oxidation of the Oxygenates by Calvert et al. is the fourth in a series dedicated to detailing the mechanisms of oxidation of volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere.  |
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 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 October 2007 Derek Lowe |
In the Pipeline One of the biggest areas of chemical research these days is in catalytic processes. It's one of the places we can really improve our processes, especially when you count the waste stream (as you should) as part of the total energy bill.  |
Chemistry World January 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Of all the natural product classes, the steroid family are perhaps the most prevalent in the public consciousness; from cholesterol to testosterone, their infamy inflates the 'science bit' in countless advertisements.  |
Chemistry World April 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Recruiting electrophiles for organic cross-coupling Chemists in the US have taken an unconventional approach to carbon cross-coupling and in doing so have potentially opened the door to the rapid and efficient synthesis of a wide range of organic compounds.  |
Chemistry World June 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Although its chemistry is mature and varied, my use of silicon reagents in my synthetic forays has been limited to a somewhat clumsy use of hydroxyl protecting groups.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World July 9, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
'Molecular cobra' turns C-H to C=C A reagent developed by US chemists can selectively introduce synthetically useful C=C double bonds into unactivated carbon chains, guided by an activating group attached to a nearby oxygen or nitrogen atom.  |
Chemistry World August 14, 2014 Elisabeth Ratcliffe |
Photoredox route to medically-important heterocycles Researchers in the US have developed a new photo catalyzed coupling reaction that could provide a pathway to a huge number of biologically active compounds.  |
Chemistry World January 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Fruity route to control asymmetric syntheses Chemists in the UK have discovered a quick, cheap and easy way to make a key sulfide reagent that can mediate the formation of chirally selective molecules needed for complex organic syntheses.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Peer review by live blogging Blogging can immediately bring together expert opinion on a given topic. Poorly reviewed papers claiming novelty can be expected to be rapidly dissected in the blogosphere, as some chemists have found out.  |
Chemistry World August 2008 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Impersonating nature isn't easy, and biomimetic syntheses are remarkable in two senses.  |
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 July 22, 2015 James Morey |
Organic synthesis: state of the art -- 2011--2013 This book would be ideal for those needing to be on top of the literature in synthetic organic chemistry, but who don't have the time to read the ever-increasing body of pertinent articles.  |
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 June 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey This PhD student takes an organic chemist's tour around the periodic table.  |
Chemistry World April 21, 2011 Mary Badcock |
CO2 aids oxidation reactions Carbon dioxide enhances the catalytic oxidation of cyclic alkenes, leading to higher conversions at low pressures, say researchers from South Korea.  |
Chemistry World March 20, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Is Your Lab Ready to go Veggie? In a recently published review article, Geoffrey Cordell demonstrates that the greengrocer's could be an unexpected goldmine of sustainable, cheap reagents that would benefit chemistry in developing countries.  |
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 October 29, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Two metals are better than one UK chemists have developed reagents that can metallate ethers and ethene at room temperature without them disintegrating.  |
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 February 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Although most of the natural products I've discussed have had biological activity at the core of the rationale for their synthesis, most organic chemists will admit that an unusual chemical structure is by far the stronger draw.  |
Information Today November 19, 2015 |
Thieme Updates Science of Synthesis Thieme Chemistry rolled out Science of Synthesis version 4.2, which has about 2,400 printed pages of new content.  |
Chemistry World August 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Chemists hold a candle to reagent preservation Scientists in the US now have a solution to end the build-up of chemical waste with a wax capsule that can protect reagents from the atmosphere.  |
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 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 1, 2013 Eleanor Merritt |
New software for creating green solvents Scientists in France have developed a computer-assisted organic synthesis program to design sustainable solvents from bio-based building blocks.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |