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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.  |
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 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 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.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
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 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 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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 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 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.  |
Chemistry World June 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey This PhD student takes an organic chemist's tour around the periodic table.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
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  |
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.  |
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 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 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 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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |