Organic chemistry – Page 12
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ResearchBottleable but reactive carbocations are powerful hydride abstractors
Fluorinated trityl cations outperform trityl for hydride abstraction reactions
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FeatureLife’s chemistry goes through the looking glass
Chemists were taught that natural systems only use L-amino acids. Andy Extance finds out just how wrong that is proving
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OpinionExit strategy
Overcoming a major setback showed Derek Lowe could make it through graduate school
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ResearchSpotlight shone on sped up photochemical reactions in droplets
Light can produce ‘hot spots’ in aerosols that supercharge reaction rates
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ResearchAutomated carbon-13 NMR structure validation program highlights errors atom-by-atom
Introducing a new measure to quantify molecular structural uncertainty
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ResearchMolecular ratchet made from only 26 atoms rotates in one direction
Chiral fuel drives molecular machine’s rotation, mimicking fundamental biological processes
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OpinionBuilding data systems to break down research silos
Shared schemas could make it a lot easier for researchers to cross discipline boundaries
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ResearchLight-driven molecular motor made from entirely renewable resources
Green synthetic strategy leads to first light-driven molecular motor from wood biomass
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ResearchMicroscopy unveils piece-by-piece formation of 2D covalent polymers
New results provide ‘fundamental insights’ on the growth of covalent organic framework monolayers
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ResearchFully nitrated benzene sets explosive record
Nitro-nitroaminobenzene is the organic compound with the largest detonation energy release yet
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ResearchSwitching molecular self-assembly on and off with electricity
New approach uses electrons to catalyse molecular recognition, giving chemists precise control over the process
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ResearchThis computational chemist is experimentalists’ secret weapon in the hunt for new materials
Kim Jelfs discusses how software development feeds – and needs – collaboration
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ResearchStudy finds Goldilocks organoborane catalysts for fluorination
Tuning fluoride ion affinity opens a window for organoborane phase transfer catalysis in nucleophilic fluorination reactions
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ResearchRobot chemist snaps 3D building blocks together like Lego to make complex molecules
Automated synthesiser uses a new class of boronates that are a thousand times more stable than those previously used
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OpinionWe need our simple symbols, but machines might not
Will the curly arrow still be with us in another 100 years?
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ResearchSulfonated macrocycle helps the medicine go down
A supramolecular approach makes alkaloid drugs taste less bitter
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ResearchAtom-swapping reaction sequence turns cyclic diarylmethanes into diarylethers
Strategy that stitches three different reactions together could be useful for making pharmaceutical intermediates
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OpinionA century of curly arrows
Celebrating the simple symbols that – along with their straight counterparts – encapsulate complex chemical behaviours