All Matter articles – Page 50
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ResearchLargest molecular wheel ever made pushes limits of aromaticity rules
Giant, 162 π-electron aromatic ring shows that we haven’t reached the upper limit of Hückel’s rule yet
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OpinionEllie Knaggs and tetrahedral carbon
Ellie Knaggs’ claim to be the first to use x-rays to prove carbon’s tetrahedral bonding in molecules has been overlooked, finds Andy Extance
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ResearchRhenium plays starring role in bond movie
Controllable energy input from transmission electron microscope captures atoms dissociating and recombining
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ResearchSynthetic strategy exploits fluxional nitrogen to deliver three chiral centres for the price of one
Innovative method amplifies chirality and complexity in medicinally relevant cyclic hydrazines
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ResearchCar exhaust fumes could be used to clean up the recovery of metals
Process could make carbon capture cheaper by providing a use for trapped CO2
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ResearchEntropy measurements can gauge health of lithium-ion batteries
Non-destructive technique for battery diagnostics
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Research‘Inside-out’ chirality discovered by chance could have been missed in many molecules
A structure assignment odyssey finds a natural product with a type of isomerism never before seen in small molecules
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ResearchMixed oxidation states expand repertoire of hypervalent iodine reagents
Iodine(iii) and iodine(v) coexist in new nitroiodoxybenzene-based oxidant
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ResearchElusive water ionisation intermediate found using ultrafast x-ray pulses
H2O+ cationic hole never directly observed before
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FeaturePolly Arnold’s diversity of interests
Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab
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ResearchFirst atomically thin carbon may end debate on nature of amorphous materials
Images of 2D carbon rule out one of two competing theories amorphous materials’ structure
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ResearchProgram finds 5 million synthetic routes to complex chemicals
Only around five hundred ‘tactical combinations’ for advanced organic synthesis existed – until Chematica was let loose on the problem
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ResearchCompact pharmaceutical factory manufactures drugs on demand
Plant with modular design would occupy about half the area of a squash court
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ResearchMystery around ‘stealthy’ surfactants deepens as study raises more questions
Simple explanation for why inorganic boron clusters behave like organic surfactants doesn’t convince everyone
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ResearchSemiconductive properties see subvalent silver oxide contravene textbook rules
Extreme synthetic conditions create material with a seemingly implausible electron count
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ResearchGrinding out single-atom catalysts made simple by ball mill
No compromise on quality of heterogeneous catalysts made on kilogram scale
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ResearchInorganic fragment library ready to help drug discoverers reach neglected regions of chemical space
A new approach to fragment-based drug design
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Feature
Can chemists crack our cells’ sugar code?
Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to understand the sweet mystery of the glycome
