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Chemistry World April 11, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Phosphorus fragments trapped Researchers in the US and Germany have shown how a rare and highly reactive form of phosphorus can be captured and crystallised, making it stable even at room temperature. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2012 David Bradley |
Tripling up on boron bonds Carbon and nitrogen are well known for their triple bonds, but making stable compounds with a triple bond between two boron atoms hadn't been achieved despite the computational possibilities. Until now. |
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Double bonding with silicon In a landmark for silicon chemistry, US researchers have reported the first stable silicon (0) compound to contain a silicon-silicon double bond. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
First interstellar sighting of a branched alkyl molecule The radiotelescope in Atacama, Chile, has found the first branched molecule ever seen in interstellar space |
Chemistry World June 11, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Houdini Molecule Escapes Energy Trap A team of international chemists has captured and caught on camera a small, elusive molecule that has previously never been seen. |
Chemistry World June 15, 2009 James Urquhart |
Meteorite sheds light on birth of the solar system French and Italian scientists have analysed a meteorite and discovered that it contains a unique and primordial rock fragment |
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley |
Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes. |
Chemistry World February 8, 2006 Jon Evans |
To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space. |
Chemistry World October 22, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Carbenes catalyse metal-metal bonds in organometallics Chemists in the US have discovered a novel way to transform organometallic compounds so that new metal-metal bonds are created. |
Chemistry World July 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey Synthesizing molecules that force atoms into bizarre contortionist acts is the only way to learn. |
Chemistry World August 17, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Switchable Surfactants Give on-Demand Emulsions Oil and water can now be mixed or separated simply by bubbling carbon dioxide or air through the blend, thanks to a molecule developed by Canadian chemists. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2014 Phillip Broadwith |
How good do you want it? In a chemical manufacturing environment, the most important questions for process chemists are qualitative: how shall we make this molecule? How can we do it safely? |
Chemistry World November 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple? |
Chemistry World March 10, 2006 |
Dual Organometallics Enhance Zinc Reactivity Chemists have synthesised organometallic compounds that enable zinc to participate in directed metalation of organic substrates. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Archetypal Lewis Acid Borane Turned Into a Base Chemists in the US and Germany have achieved the remarkable feat of transforming a borane, an archetypal electron-accepting Lewis acid, into an electron-donating Lewis base. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2007 Michael Gross |
Nanowires go Round the Bend Chemists have bent an apparently linear molecular wire into a closed circle, creating a conducting ring just 3 nanometers across. |
Chemistry World March 22, 2012 Ross McLaren |
Back to the future: old reactions to help the new Researchers from the US have delved into the history of organic chemistry to help chemists better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Telescope detects ionised carbon in early galaxies An international team of radio astronomers has detected the first faint trace of ionized carbon in the early universe. |
Chemistry World July 5, 2007 Michael Gross |
Cold Chemistry Chemical reactions at extremely low temperatures can run at surprisingly fast rates and astrochemists have begun to figure out why. |
Chemistry World June 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success |
Chemistry World March 21, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Forcing a Reaction US chemists have forced molecules to react by ripping their bonds apart with ultrasound. The scientists carefully stretched one targeted bond until it snapped, guiding the molecule's subsequent reaction into pathways forbidden by conventional chemistry. |
Reactive Reports Issue 45 |
Star Picks Chemistry Web sites: Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources... Doing Chemistry... Chemistry Question... |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 |
Nanorings promise big memory Researchers have found a way to cause magnetic cobalt nanoparticles to spontaneously assemble into rings that are less than 100 nanometers across. Because the molecule is small, memory made from it could hold a great deal of information. |
Chemistry World June 10, 2011 Laura Howes |
Quantum tunnelling creates the 'wrong' molecule Protons takes a quantum leap in carbene reaction to give chemists a surprise |
Chemistry World August 9, 2007 Kira Welter |
Molecular Heatwave Spreads at Ferocious Pace Wildfires spread frighteningly fast, but thankfully not at kilometers per second pace. That's the rate at which heat rips through a molecule. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2011 Joanne Thomson |
Hot Chemistry Temperature played a crucial role in David MacMillan's decision to study chemistry. |
National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Carbon Film Enhances Space Probe Diamond like carbon films that were developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are being used on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer to help determine how solar wind interacts with the matter that exists between stars. |