Organic chemistry – Page 48

  • Shark
    Podcast

    Squalene

    2014-07-02T00:00:00Z

    It helps keep sharks afloat, but may be partly responsible for their declining numbers: Helen Scales introduces squalene

  • Pyridine
    Podcast

    Pyridine

    2014-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg holds his nose to examine one of the real workhorses of the organic chemistry lab: Pyridine

  • The putative carbon coupling pathway functions without transition metals
    Research

    Carbon–carbon couplings go 3D

    2014-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Reaction extends 2010 Nobel prize winning Suzuki coupling and can be used to modify natural products

  • 0614CW_Orgmatter_300m
    Opinion

    How good do you want it?

    2014-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Quality analysis is a very different ball game to a simple reaction check, says Chemjobber

  • Alarm clock
    Podcast

    Melatonin

    2014-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Meet melatonin, the ‘Dracula of hormones’, essential in regulating the body’s natural circadian rhythm

  • Socks
    Podcast

    Naphthalene

    2014-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Once a fusty way of keeping moths out of clothes, Brian Clegg explains how naphthalene may have helped bring life to Earth

  • Mandelalide structure
    Opinion

    Mandelalide A

    2014-05-08T00:00:00Z

    New reactions need to belong in a synthesis, says BRSM, not be forced in for show

  • Phil Baran
    Podcast

    Chemistry World podcast - May 2014

    2014-05-08T00:00:00Z

    We speak to the ‘sultan of synthesis’, Phil Baran, and Peter James explains how labs can save cash on energy bills

  • Glowsticks
    Podcast

    Diphenyl oxalate

    2014-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Nature has a range of ways to create bioluminescence. Not to be outdone, chemists create their own glow with diphenyl oxalate.

  • Tea
    Podcast

    Tannins

    2014-04-30T00:00:00Z

    They are the compounds that link leather trousers to a nice cup of tea - Brian Clegg introduces tannins

  • Luminol
    Podcast

    Luminol

    2014-04-16T00:00:00Z

    Amongst the fictional forensic equipment shown on television, Brian Clegg notices one distinctly non-fiction stalwart: luminol

  • Phil Baran
    Feature

    The sultan of synthesis

    2014-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Phil Baran is spurring organic chemists to rethink how they make complex compounds, as Mark Peplow discovers

  • Laboratory bottles
    Podcast

    Dichloromethane

    2014-04-09T00:00:00Z

    It smells sweet, is potentially lethal and organic chemists rely on it: Emily James on dichloromethane

  • amide reduction pathways
    Opinion

    Reduced to clear

    2014-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Karl Collins contemplates reducing amides to alcohols instead of amines

  • Golden poison frog
    Podcast

    Batrachotoxin

    2014-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Stephen Wallace introduces batrachotoxin, a deadly toxin that comes from a beautiful little frog

  • Antimicrobial susceptibility testing in petri dish
    Podcast

    Streptomycin

    2014-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton introduces the first antibiotic known to kill TB: streptomycin

  • Inspecting reactor contents by torchlight
    Opinion

    Ringing the changes

    2014-02-27T00:00:00Z

    A chemical manufacturing plant is a whole new world compared to the lab, as Chemjobber explains

  • Mystery box concept image
    Opinion

    Tools of the trade

    2014-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Derek Lowe wonders what the most life-changing instrument for organic chemists is, and what might be missing from the toolbox

  • 0214CW-REVIEWS_Design-and-Strategy-in-Organic-Synthesis_300m
    Review

    Design and strategy in organic synthesis

    2014-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Making molecules

  • Indoxamycins A, C and F
    Opinion

    Indoxamycins A, C and F

    2014-01-29T00:00:00Z

    BRSM gets to the core of a divergent synthesis of this natural product family