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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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 22, 2008
Susan Aldridge
A greener route to amines Researchers based in Israel have developed an easier way to make troublesome primary amines, using a new ruthenium catalyst. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 21, 2007
Tom Westgate
Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 21, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Esters Made Easy with Indium Indium is the basis of a novel catalyst designed to make useful cyclic esters. This catalyst could greatly simplify the production of chiral dihydropyranones, important structural elements in many natural products and pharmaceuticals. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 18, 2011
Steve Down
Cofactor Control of Catalysis Enantioselectivity Scientists have used cofactors to control the enantioselectivity of supramolecular transition metal catalysts, enabling the asymmetric hydrogenation of a series of acrylates and related compounds with remarkably high selectivities. 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
February 19, 2010
Simon Hadlington
Forcing stereoselectivity on reactive cations Chemists in the US have devised a dual catalyst strategy to tame the highly reactive iminium ion to give a high degree of stereochemical control over subsequent reactions of the ion. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 17, 2010
Andrew Turley
Biocatalyst improves diabetes drug production Researchers have developed an enzyme that can produce a difficult to form chiral amine in a best-selling diabetes therapy. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 11, 2011
Josh Howgego
Enzyme Inspired Nickel Complex Races to Produce Hydrogen A cheap nickel catalyst could pave the way for the industrial production of hydrogen - a step on the road to a hydrogen economy. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
May 22, 2015
James Urquhart
Complex amines made easy (and cheap) Phil Baran's lab at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, has come up with a protocol that repurposes two readily available and inexpensive feedstock building blocks; olefins and nitroarenes, via iron-catalysed cross-coupling. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 19, 2009
Hayley Birch
Chiral metals shape up for catalysis Dutch and Israeli scientists have found a way to induce the chirality usually only found in organic materials in palladium. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 17, 2009
Simon Hadlington
Single catalyst gives two products from racemic mixture Chemists in the US have demonstrated a remarkable reaction in which a single catalyst can transform a racemic mixture - molecules identical in every way except for their chirality - into two distinct enantiomerically pure products. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 2010
Paul Docherty
Barekoxide and barekol Like most scientists, organic chemists can often obsess about a problem, endlessly pursuing the perfect yield or enantioselectivity, often leading to tears and broken glassware. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 26, 2007
Tom Westgate
Counterion Does the Twist US chemists have achieved a breakthrough in the design of catalysts that selectively produce chiral compounds. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 10, 2010
Phillip Broadwith
A green and salty chiral catalyst An efficient, chiral, salt-based hypervalent iodine catalyst has been discovered by Japanese chemists that could replace toxic metal catalysts without generating the waste or explosion risks associated with hypervalent organo-iodine complexes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 28, 2010
Mike Brown
Producing hydrogen from sea water A new catalyst that generates hydrogen from sea water has been developed by scientists in the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
March 8, 2011
Jon Cartwright
Carbon nanotubes - a boon for chiral catalysts Researchers in China have created a new catalyst that could help in the production of chiral molecules for medical drugs. The catalyst, which consists of platinum nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, is the most active of its type ever reported. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 14, 2009
James Urquhart
New route to amino acids US scientists have found a new way of making a class of non-natural amino acids that are widely used as components of pharmaceuticals and chiral catalysts. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 23, 2015
Karl Collins
Scratching chiral surfaces There are numerous challenges to developing reactions that exploit chiral surfaces, or employ molecular modifiers (ligands) to create a chiral surface environment and control the stereoselectivity of a transformation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 3, 2009
Hayley Birch
Bio-Inspired Catalyst Design Could Rival Platinum French scientists have demonstrated the potential of a new fuel cell catalyst inspired by hydrogenase enzymes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 28, 2014
Trekking across chemical frontiers Thinking about getting molecules to where they need to go is a new concept for the novice process chemist, but is familiar to chemical engineers as mass transfer. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 2, 2015
Batzelladine B Of all the diverse substances that nature produces, the alkaloids -- small molecules containing basic nitrogen -- have had the greatest impact on human history and health. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 11, 2009
James Urquhart
Structural snapshots of complex molecules US researchers have pioneered a new spectroscopy technique to uncover the precise sequence of atomic movements and structural changes that occur during complex chemical transformations. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 13, 2008
Richard Van Noorden
Asymmetric ketone catalysis gets pharma-scale makeover An asymmetric catalysis reaction limited to laboratory syntheses has received a makeover that could see it used on a large scale by drug-makers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 1, 2012
Paul Docherty
Vincorine Cage-structured natural products are some of the most appealing (if perhaps not appetising) targets for organic chemists -- perhaps due to their obvious intricacy of form, but also because of their structural rigidity. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
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). mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 18, 2009
Hayley Birch
Conducting MOFs make membranes for fuel cells New crystalline compounds could yield better materials for fuel cell applications, according to Canadian scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 11, 2008
Lewis Brindley
Oxidation Goes Green A new 'green' strategy for making useful nitrogen-based chemicals has been announced by chemists in the UK. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 23, 2010
Jon Cartwright
Catalyst improves prospects for fuel cells Chemists in the US have developed a new catalyst that could help in a key reaction used to generate hydrogen for fuel cells. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
September 13, 2013
Anthony King
Spinning a catalytic yarn Scientists in Germany have revealed a revolutionary new support for catalysts -- cloth. They succeeded in permanently securing organocatalysts onto nylon using ultraviolet light, without any need for chemical modification. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 23, 2010
Simon Hadlington
New catalyst for hydrogen from formic acid Chemists in Germany have taken a leaf out of nature's book to develop a new, low-cost, iron-based catalyst powered by light that can extract hydrogen from formic acid. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 1, 2007
Lewis Brindley
Semiconductor Splits Water with Sunlight Scientists in Germany have developed a promising new catalyst that splits water using sunlight -- and stores the hydrogen and oxygen produced. 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
September 21, 2009
Hayley Birch
Enzymes inspire new catalyst design for hydrogen production A novel enzyme-based catalyst developed by UK and US researchers hints at new ways of designing catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction, an important industrial reaction in the production of high grade hydrogen. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 21, 2010
James Urquhart
Cellulose catalyst rewrites rules of attraction Chinese researchers have developed a magnetic solid acid catalyst that raises the prospect of efficiently converting biomass cellulose into useful chemicals, such as sugars for biofuel production. mark for My Articles similar articles