All Columns articles – Page 85
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Opinion
Editorial: Launching CW China
This month we're excited to announce the launch of Chemistry World: China
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Opinion
Letters: August 2007
From John Holman Your editorial ’Dear Gordon’ (Chemistry World, June 2007) points to the skills that chemistry graduates can contribute to the economy. Chemistry is a quantitative subject that teaches the scientific use of evidence, and that is one reason why chemistry graduates are so employable. However, Peter Cotgreave’s ...
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Opinion
Credit where it's due
Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve, says Derek Lowe
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Opinion
Editorial: Research regions
The European Research Area - a rather hypothetical region at the best of times - is failing to live up to its potential
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Opinion
Letters: July 2007
From Ronald Bentley In his ’Bench Monkey’ column (Chemistry World, April 2007, p40) Dylan Stiles notes that the odour of benzylmercaptan, used by a colleague, stays with him long after he leaves the lab. In 1989, I worked with the many reports describing the war-time research on the chemistry of ...
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Opinion
Blinkers for bad news
The Avandia controversy poses some tough questions about how to balance risks, says Derek Lowe
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OpinionEditorial: Questioning the FDA
There will be mutterings of unrest in the corridors of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this month
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Opinion
Letters: June 2007
From Peter Plesch When in 1989 I was writing the paper entitled The relation between reduction potential and solvation energy for some aryl-methylium ions, (J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1989, 1139), I needed the ionisation potentials of the tri-4-X-phenylmethyl radicals, where X = Cl, H, and MeO, as these ...
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Opinion
Talking nanotechnology with the public
Philip Ball discusses Europe's efforts to communicate innovations in nanotechnology to a wide audience
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Opinion
Patented fundamentals
Derek Lowe sets the record straight about pharmaceutical patents on traditional medicines