All articles by Andy Extance – Page 14
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Research
Firming COFs up takes Michael reaction catalysis forward
Chemists stabilise hexagonal layers that form nanochannels, which help speed up conversions
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Vitamin makes tricky E/Z flipping easy
Thanks to riboflavin, chemists see route to Z-isomers of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl intermediates
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‘Fire fountain’ data illuminate lunar history
Volatile element details promise to ignite research into Moon’s origin and evolution
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Business
Porous pills could be largest industrial 3D printing use
US grants first-of-a-kind approval for Aprecia’s epilepsy tablets exploiting porous structure
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Philae poses comet chemistry conundrum
Historic mass spectra find 67P carries precursors to key biomolecules, but instruments detect different ones
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Business
Chemical firms seek better grasp of biomanufacturing
The search is on for better alternatives to the ‘broken’ way companies harness compound-making organisms
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Feature
Getting the measure of Mars
Sophisticated analytical chemistry is studying our neighbouring planet, as Andy Extance discovers
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Pharma queues up for checkpoint inhibitor collaborations
Combinations of different firms’ drugs seek to reap immuno-oncology’s benefits
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Copper catalysis overcomes double bond trouble
Stubbornly stable unactivated internal alkenes become chiral tertiary amine precursors
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Organic odysseys
Andy Extance looks at two drugs that cranked the synthetic challenge all the way up to Halaven
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X-rays capture super-fast nanoscale film
Chance finding underlines nanodiffraction technique’s power and potential
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Noble gas joins σ-hole interaction crowd
Surprising ‘aerogen bonding’ completes set of p-block groups exhibiting the phenomenon
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Capturing carbon
Andy Extance finds uncertainty over efforts to capture and store CO2 from power generation
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Malaria drug could cash in on green chemistry
Minimising acid and solvent toxicity brings surprising benefits in artemisinin production
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Business
$13.8bn Danaher bid wins Pall auction
Mega-merger follows consolidation trend in lab equipment supply sector, but analysts suggest this is yet to impact pricing competition
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Espresso maker brews up tasty extraction
Household appliance isolates flu drug raw material from star anise while minimising pigment contamination
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Longer-lived oxides offer silicon synthesis boost
Touted as ‘soluble sand’, stabilised small silicon oxides present new synthetic worlds
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Careers
A web of possibilities
Andy Extance logs on to learn how massive open online courses could attract new students, improve education and help fill the global education gap
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Reaction map suggests meteorite chemistry route to life
Scientists propose that key biomolecules appeared simultaneously from a hellish cyanide and sulfide mix
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News
Data falsification hits polymer mechanochemistry papers
Misconduct by member of Christopher Bielawski’s group has led to several retractions