Organic chemistry – Page 34
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ResearchRobots explore chemistry’s dark spaces
Thousands of nanoscale experiments create map of reactions that don’t work
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OpinionWhy choice of solvent matters more than you think
Weak interactions with solvents could change the chemical identity of a solution
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ResearchStudy confirms long-distance quantum tunnelling in thiourea
Validation for unusual proton-transfer process first observed 15 years ago
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PodcastPotassium bitartrate
Brian Clegg with the winemaking byproduct that may be lurking in your larder
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ResearchSimplest supramolecular helix forms from diethylamine
Diethylamine is the smallest and simplest molecule that forms a supramolecular helix as its lowest energy aggregate
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OpinionMaking light work of synthesis
The LED zeppelin is flying high, but is it all hot air asks Karl Collins
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PodcastTwistacenes
Kat Arney discovers the strange things that happen when organic compounds go round the twist
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ResearchChemists tie molecular knot with record number of crossings
Interwoven structure with 16 crossings is the one of the most complex ever made
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ResearchPlasmon chemistry sheds new light on designing photocatalysts
Quasiparticle observed getting involved in dissociation reaction
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ResearchCatalytic nanomachine assembled by remote control
Chemical signalling drives eight-component system
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ResearchExchange of rings shows off molecular machine's clever trick
Small ring passing through a larger one is a fundamentally new motion for a rotaxane
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ResearchChallenging mirror molecules made with stereochemistry destroying reaction
Clever catalyst repurposes classic nucleophilic substitution to make chiral quaternary carbon centres
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Research‘Cyborg ribosome’ reads polystyrene message to create catalyst
A simplified artificial molecular machine with a useful catalyst product hints at the potential of synthetic systems
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ResearchFormaldehyde burst surprises reaction spectators
Surface plasmon resonance imaging reveals unexpected self-catalysis behaviour of formaldehyde on a platinum catalyst
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ResearchEngineered enzymes make super strained rings
Mutated haem proteins make light work of synthesising bicyclobutanes
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ResearchCoordination trick reinvents cobalt and nickel as carbon reduction catalysts
When it comes to reducing carbon dioxide, being well coordinated is a disadvantage
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