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Chemistry World
November 28, 2013
Andy Extance
Base metal catalysts strike hydrogenation gold Three teams have shown that chemists need not rely only on expensive and toxic precious metal catalysts for hydrogenation -- they've found complementary alternatives based on cheap, abundant and safer transition metals. 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 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
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
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. 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
October 21, 2012
Nina Notman
Haber-Bosch power consumption slashed A new type of ruthenium catalyst could reduce the power consumption of ammonia production, claim Japanese scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reactive Reports
March 2005
David Bradley
Losing the Sulfur Dutch researchers have figured out why the activity of catalysts used to produce clean fuels gradually falls. Their findings show that loss of sulfur atoms from the catalyst itself is to blame and could lead to a way to remedy the situation. 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
July 26, 2007
Richard Van Noorden
Shortcut Protein Synthesis Ditches Amino Acids Chinese chemists have demonstrated a speedy way to make polypeptides by avoiding the costly tedium of linking together amino acids. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 15, 2012
Steve Down
Single catalyst for oxidation and reduction of water European scientists have developed a catalyst based on cobalt that generates hydrogen from water in a simple electrochemical process using low overpotentials, with the added bonus that it can also be used to produce oxygen after anodic equilibration. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 4, 2009
James Urquhart
Easier ester synthesis Researchers in the US have shown how oxygen-coated gold nanoparticles can selectively oxidise a variety of alcohols and aldehydes. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
February 1, 2012
Jon Evans
Two become one for bio-oil upgrade The development of a couple of new and improved catalysts for upgrading bio-oil is bringing this novel approach to producing biofuels a step closer to the big time. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 21, 2011
James Urquhart
Lignin cut down to size by nickel catalyst A nickel-based homogeneous catalyst that breaks down lignin - the tough polymer that forms plant cell walls - into useful building blocks suitable for chemicals, including green fuels, has been developed by US scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 1, 2011
Anna Watson
From coffee shop to biodiesel source in one step Spent coffee grounds have been turned into biodiesel by researchers from Portugal and Spain, who combined two separate processes to produce the biodiesel in one step. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 5, 2008
Richard Van Noorden
Cheaper Catalysts Designed by Computer Researchers have used computer calculations to discover cheap alloys that selectively catalyse an industrial reaction better than the current expensive systems. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 10, 2011
David Bradley
A soluble solution to the Haber process? A clearer understanding of the activity of the key component of the Haber-Bosch process - the catalyst - could help to optimize industrial nitrogen fixation still further and remove the need for high temperatures and pressures. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 27, 2011
Manisha Lalloo
Catalyst cleans up C-C bond formation Researchers in the US have developed an iridium catalyst that promotes carbon-carbon bond formation between methanol and allenes. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
May 23, 2011
Simon Hadlington
Homing in on a cheaper Haber-Bosch process A cheaper alternative to the Haber-Bosch process could have moved a step closer thanks to a new ruthenium-based catalyst complex developed by chemists in Germany. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 2007
Dylan Stiles
Opinion: Bench Monkey This PhD student takes an organic chemist's tour around the periodic table. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 25, 2010
Laura Howes
Making plastics from plants Cheap bio-oil could soon compete with crude oil in plastic manufacture, thanks to work by US scientists. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
October 8, 2008
James Mitchell Crow
Clever catalysts promise commercial advantage Smarter catalysts that could help the chemical industry to cut costs and beat ever-more stringent government regulations were showcased at CPhI, the pharmaceutical ingredient trade show, held in Frankfurt, Germany. 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
April 30, 2015
Rebecca Trager
Anton Toutov: The power of potassium Toutov says the potassium catalyst he has developed costs only about $30 per mole, or less. 'It is safer and non-toxic, and a lot more cost-effective,' he states. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 27, 2014
Simon Hadlington
Tough tungsten alloy produces purer nanotubes Researchers in China may have overcome one of the main problems in exploiting carbon nanotubes for many high-tech applications -- how to synthesize chirally pure samples. 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
February 27, 2013
Simon Hadlington
Supercharging methanol for fuel cells Scientists in Germany and Italy have discovered a way to derive hydrogen gas from methanol at low temperatures and pressures using soluble ruthenium-based 'pincer' catalysts. 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
September 9, 2013
Emma Stoye
Water-splitting catalyst based on Prussian blue Prussian blue has been used for over 300 years as a pigment in dyes and an antidote to heavy metal poisoning. Researchers say it could help improve water splitting 'artificial leaf' technology, thanks to the catalytic activity of a cobalt-containing derivative. 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
August 22, 2008
Emma Davies
Biofuels coming to a town near you? A new Fischer-Tropsch catalyst could offer the potential for agricultural waste to be turned into biofuel at small local plants mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
March 2010
What the Research Found Numerous studies have explored the investment benefits of adding precious metals to portfolios of U.S. equities. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
July 16, 2012
Manisha Lalloo
'Artificial Leaf' Under the Microscope Defects at the edge of the cobalt clusters give the Nocera catalyst its water splitting properties. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
December 3, 2010
Elinor Richards
Graphene catalyst comes out on top Sulfonated graphene solid acid catalysts could be cheap, environmentally friendly alternatives to concentrated sulfuric acid for use in industry because they can be recycled, say scientists from China. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
February 24, 2015
Phillip Broadwith
Catalytic carbon dioxide convertors The world's demand for energy, and the resultant carbon dioxide emissions, are drastically changing our climate. UK startup Econic Technologies is developing catalysts that could take some of that CO 2 and lock it up in high-performance polymer materials. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
April 1, 2014
Karl Collins
Reduced to clear Reducing amides to primary alcohols may instinctively seem like a simple functional group transformation. But as undergraduate chemists soon find out, this unfortunately isn't the case. 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
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
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2011
Travis Hoium
Cobalt International Energy Shares Got Crushed: What You Need to Know Shares of oil and gas explorer Cobalt International Energy fell 12% today after releasing earnings. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
November 26, 2009
Lewis Brindley
One pot synthesis for nylon precursor A highly efficient route to cyclohexanone - a key chemical in the production of nylon - has been developed by researchers in China. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson
A Fresh Start for OM Group? Can a new CEO help steer this miner and refiner to better days? The market is not expecting a lot of fireworks from OM Group. 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