Organic chemistry – Page 42
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ResearchAFM study could prompt surface catalysis rethink
Intermediates predicted by theory don’t match those seen under the microscope
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ResearchActive esters enable powerful new route to carbon–carbon bonds
‘Insanely easy’ approach to form previously tricky sp3–sp3 bonds already being used by pharma just three months after discovery
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ResearchElusive Suzuki intermediates finally captured
Backing for model that ‘jumped straight into textbooks’ without any experimental evidence
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ResearchRibosome mimic assembles made to order molecules
DNA machine can be programmed to produce a wide range of polymers and even keeps a record of each one it makes
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ResearchCaging chemical weapons
Supramolecular cubes trap and flag nerve agents using the hydrophobic effect
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ResearchA new twist on aromaticity
Researchers break record for benzene ring with the largest twist angle
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ResearchChemists hit a top synthetic target with pyramidal compounds
Non-classical covalent pyramidanes surprise with high bonding ionicity
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OpinionDead in the water
A healthy sense of hydrophobia is a useful trait in the plant, says Chemjobber
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FeatureMolecular machines
Victoria Richards investigates the world of artificial molecular machines
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ResearchChemical reaction flipped back and forth under scanning probe microscope
Work demonstrated on Bergman cyclisation offers route to valuable new reactions
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OpinionScratching chiral surfaces
Heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis beyond hydrogenation is tricky, says Karl Collins
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OpinionFoaming at the reactor mouth
Turning a 1000 gallon reactor into a giant bubble bath is far from soothing, says Chemjobber
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FeatureMolecule-making microbes
Extracting terpene drugs from plants is difficult and wasteful, so pharma companies are looking to biosynthesis, as Emiliano Feresin discovers
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OpinionBatzelladine B
Taming basic and reactive nitrogen atoms makes alkaloids more attractive targets, says BRSM
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FeatureThe origin of homochirality
Why do so many biological molecules exist in just one chirality – and how did it emerge? Rachel Brazil reflects on life’s strange asymmetry
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ResearchCobalt could cut costs for pharma ingredients
Carboxylic acids and esters hydrogenated without the need for expensive precious metals
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ResearchMegasupramolecules promise to quell fuel explosions
‘Sticky-ended’ molecules that self-assemble into long chains may have made 9/11 less deadly
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FeatureNavigating chemical space
Fully exploring the ocean of possible compounds – even computationally – is impossible, finds Philip Ball