Organic chemistry – Page 47
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Podcast
Chemistry World podcast - May 2014
We speak to the ‘sultan of synthesis’, Phil Baran, and Peter James explains how labs can save cash on energy bills
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Podcast
Diphenyl oxalate
Nature has a range of ways to create bioluminescence. Not to be outdone, chemists create their own glow with diphenyl oxalate.
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Feature
The sultan of synthesis
Phil Baran is spurring organic chemists to rethink how they make complex compounds, as Mark Peplow discovers
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Podcast
Dichloromethane
It smells sweet, is potentially lethal and organic chemists rely on it: Emily James on dichloromethane
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Podcast
Batrachotoxin
Stephen Wallace introduces batrachotoxin, a deadly toxin that comes from a beautiful little frog
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Opinion
Ringing the changes
A chemical manufacturing plant is a whole new world compared to the lab, as Chemjobber explains
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Opinion
Tools of the trade
Derek Lowe wonders what the most life-changing instrument for organic chemists is, and what might be missing from the toolbox
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Opinion
Indoxamycins A, C and F
BRSM gets to the core of a divergent synthesis of this natural product family
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Research
Designer esters for complex carbohydrates
Global deprotection in a single step streamlines oligosaccharide synthesis
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Podcast
Acetaldehyde
Brian Clegg meets a simple organic compound with a reputation for being something of a bruiser
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Podcast
Conotoxins
Helen Scales finds out how unique toxins found in deadly cone snail stings could herald the next generation of painkillers
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News
Database of 15 million chemical structures set free
European Bioinformatics Institute will curate patent data which should be a boon for drug chemists