Organic chemistry – Page 29
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ResearchRobotic organic synthesis to make reproducibility simple in chemistry
Chemputer claims universality after making three drugs without human intervention
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ResearchComputation trick cuts total synthesis from 27 to nine steps
Quantum mechanical modelling shows speedy route to terpene natural product
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PodcastPropanethial-S-oxide: how chopping onions makes you cry
Kat Arney’s investigation of the pungent chemical in onions is enough to bring tears to your eyes
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ResearchPhosphorus beats palladium in connecting nitrogen rings
An entirely metal-free reaction goes where no traditional cross-coupling has gone before – to link pyridines
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ResearchCocrystal intermediate is first for mechanochemistry
In situ Raman spectroscopy reveals how reactants align prior to forming new bond
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PodcastLevulinic acid
How one footballer's climate concerns led to the creation of a green chemistry company: the story of Mathieu Flamini, GFBiochemicals and levulinic acid.
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ResearchHidden gene cluster unearthed to reveal antibacterial natural product
Scientists encourage soil microorganisms to express themselves
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ResearchPropeller molecule acts as chirality sensor for solvents
Unusual chiral induction phenomenon observed in a molecular system
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ResearchBond-breaking reaction chops up wood chemical
Reaction that splits biphenols in two could convert lignin into useful chemicals
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ResearchWaste vegetable oils turned into chemicals for drugs and plastics
Dual catalytic system converts complex carboxylic acids into terminal alkenes
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ResearchFirst four-twist aromatic molecule made
A di-palladium complex with 54 π electrons is the first quadruply twisted aromatic molecule
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PodcastCaryophyllene
A biologically active compound from the biblical balm of Gilead, said to ‘heal the sin-sick soul’ and mentioned at the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
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ResearchCryo-EM method offers organic analysis certainty
MicroED technique gives rapid, unambiguous structure determination with small, amorphous samples
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ResearchFirst persistent monosubstituted carbene created
Clever structural design enables room-temperature isolation of highly reactive molecule
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ResearchMolecular archery allows chemists to see how bonds form
Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen
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ResearchChunky catalyst mimics enzyme to tackle tough reactions
Tricky Diels–Alder reactions or Mukaiyama aldol additions – a bulky chiral catalyst can do them all by squeezing substrates into its chiral pocket