Industrial chemistry – Page 4
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Opinion
Cleaning up chemical kitchens
In a busy plant, ensuring small changes don’t produce unforeseen toxic impurities is key
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Opinion
Stille cross-coupling
Palladium and tin combined to lay the foundations for a revolution in C–C bond-forming reactions
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Article
RSSL experts on the science behind food and pharma
Three scientists, whose contributions help world-leading brands and SMEs develop and supply innovative, safe products, share their experiences working in the labs of contract research company Reading Scientific Services Limited (RSSL)
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Research
Carbon dioxide serves as carbonyl source in frugal process for making aromatic esters
Nanoscale confinement triggers strong base reactivity in process that shuns stoichiometric consumption of resource intensive reagents
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Opinion
Fluorine: the T rex of the periodic table
Pass out the nickel superalloy reactor kit, it’s time to tame that most reactive of elements
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Research
Baran and Blackmond team up to wave farewell to tough ether syntheses
Oxidative decarboxylation produces carbocations that greatly speed up hindered ether production
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Opinion
‘Coffee machine’ synthesiser’s first steps
Cartridge-based machine enables non-experts to make heterocycles
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Research
Surprising radical mechanisms of antioxidant polysulfides
Tetrasulfide prevents oxidation of petroleum products through radical reactions
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Article
How possible contaminants are investigated
The analytical stages when a suspected issue is found in a product
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Article
Design of experiments
Statistical analysis can accelerate development, reduce costs and increase manufacturing quality
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Opinion
Management by numbers
Reducing intellectual processes to metrics runs the risk of people working to the numbers not the goal
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Research
Glass beads offer simple solution to dispensing tiny amounts of solids
Frustration drove chemists to overcome engineering challenge slowing high-throughput reaction screening set-ups
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Research
Doing away with membranes from the chloralkali process
Cost-effective and scalable electrochemical cells rely on inertial separation mechanism, rather than membranes, to keep products separate
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Article
Better chemistry through data
Are you under constant pressure to innovate? Get a boost from data analytics
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Opinion
We’re going to need a bigger flask
Scaling up reactions is easy to get wrong in a variety of ways
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Research
The five reactions on every organic chemist’s wish list
Synthesis has some catching-up to do to create the reactions every drug discovery chemist dreams of
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Opinion
In search of ultimate selectivity
A catalyst that reacts only with aryl iodides, spurning bromides and chlorides