All Reactions and synthesis articles – Page 53
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Watching chemical gardens grow
Researchers explore the flower-like formations of cobalt chloride in waterglass
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Stressed ligands switch catalysis selectivity
Switchable ligand flips between strained and relaxed forms altering reaction enantioselectivity
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Expanding the supramolecular toolbox
Meet the biphen[n]arenes, a new family of macrocyclic arenes
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Engineered metalloenzyme catalyses Friedel–Crafts reaction
Unnatural amino acids help expand catalytic repertoire of enzymes
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Podcast
Chemistry World podcast - November 2014
We speak to Eric Betzig about his Nobel prize-winning research, and find out how thermoelectric materials can be made more efficient
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Acid choice flips enantioselectivity
Changing proton source in asymmetric decarboxylation unexpectedly delivers opposite configuration
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Lycopodium alkaloids
Not all natural products are created equal. BRSM looks at a flexible route to some perennial favourites
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Designer nanoparticles cast in DNA moulds
Moulds will be able to produce a vast array of different inorganic nanoparticle shapes for nanoelectronics and catalysis
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Microfluidics for the masses
Lego-like components allow straightforward assembly of modular microfluidic circuits
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Twisting activity from amides
When amides get out of shape, a whole new world of asymmetric aldol reactions opens up, says Karl Collins
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Pick and mix macromolecules
Activating C-H bonds in molecular building blocks enables complex macromolecules to be created
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Acetaldehyde photolysis: right to roam
Surprising insights into photochemical roaming pathways
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Quintuple bond activates small stable molecules
Exotic complexes suggest route to synthetic feedstock
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Painkiller found in plants may not be natural after all
Cow pats from cattle fed tramadol could explain how the drug came to be in an African herb
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Debate over microwave boost to reactions rumbles on
New research claims microwave-specific heating effect is real and down to localised heating of reactants
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‘Assembly line’ sculpts carbon chains
Precise addition of methyl group-bearing links is set to improve molecular shape control
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Antimalarial flow synthesis closer to commercialisation
Scientists in Germany hope their continuous flow method will boost accessibility of artemisinin-derived medicines