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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 November 24, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Boron and beryllium finally shake hands Beryllium bis(diazaborolyl) features the first non-cluster bond between boron and beryllium. |
Chemistry World February 6, 2012 David Bradley |
10 out of 10 for boron's coordinated effort A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. |
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Flattening carbon UK researchers have managed to synthesise a molecule with an almost planar four-coordinate carbon atom bonded to two lithium atoms and bulky organic ligands. |
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 April 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Lead joins the aromatic ring club Scientists in Japan have successfully incorporated an atom of lead into an aromatic molecule - the heaviest metal so far to be 'aromatised'. |
Chemistry World February 28, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Chloride Ions in a Bind Chemists in the US have designed a donut-shaped molecule that tightly binds negatively-charged chloride ions. |
Chemistry World December 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Alcohol enantiomer conundrum cracked UK chemists have discovered a straightforward new way to make chiral tertiary alcohols that gives selective access to either enantiomer. |
Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards |
Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth. |
Chemistry World September 28, 2011 Laura Howes |
Conjuring up gram quantities of a stabilising anion For a certain breed of inorganic chemist, weakly coordinating anions are great - they hardly interact with their positive counterparts and so can stabilise unstable cations. |
Chemistry World March 2012 |
Column: In the pipeline Drug discovery requires experimentation, says Derek Lowe. But chemists can be reluctant to stray from the elements they know and love |
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 May 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Purely inorganic aromatic ion synthesized Scientists in the US have successfully synthesized an aromatic ion made from only nitrogen and phosphorus. The anion is a rare example of a stable aromatic species containing no carbon atoms. |
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 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 August 29, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Breaking the bonds of global warming US scientists have managed to prise apart the highly unreactive carbon-fluorine bond at room temperature, potentially paving the way to the efficient disposal of hydrofluorocarbons -- highly stable and long-lived greenhouse gases. |
Reactive Reports Issue 62 |
Alumination at last! More powerful solid rocket fuel could be the product of research into a new class of compounds containing aluminum and hydrogen compounds, according to an international research team. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
240 boron atoms in a single molecular species The unique supramolecular cuboctahedron contains 240 boron atoms and was synthesized by Chad Mirkin and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, via coordination-driven assembly. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2013 Tim Wogan |
Pressure to form exotic ionic salts irresistible for nitrogen Researchers have used computer algorithms to calculate nitrogen structures at pressures far beyond the reach of current experimental determinations. Most notably, they calculated that it could form an ionic salt in which both the cations and anions were nitrogen. |
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Manisha Lalloo |
Ultra-pure boron structure discovered Scientists have characterised a new form of elemental boron - a notoriously hard element to synthesise in a pure form - and found that ionic bonding helps hold the structure together. |
Chemistry World December 10, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2014 Highlights from last year's ground breaking chemical sciences research. |
Chemistry World May 16, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Anions enjoy a taste of pi European researchers have captured the moment when an anion interacts with the pi electron cloud of an aromatic molecule, something that has been known to occur but never seen at work. |
Chemistry World January 24, 2010 Andy Extance |
Boron cluster forms unique ring system Clusters of nineteen boron atoms gather together in a ring structure unlike any other seen, with two planar -bonded aromatic systems nestled inside one another. |
Chemistry World January 19, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Happy Families for Aluminium Chemists have discovered that aluminium - a notoriously anti-social element compared with its sister boron - may in fact form an unexpected family of hydride clusters. |
Science News March 16, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 12, 1932 Scientists unearth new portrait of King Tut's girl-wife... Tapping of the atom's energy achieved in new experiment... Scientists learning secret of how plants manufacture food... |
Chemistry World November 12, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Flat boron first looks promising for nano-electronics The super hard material, which was formed by two-stage chemical vapor deposition, has unusual properties for a two-dimensional material that could potentially make it very useful in nano-electronics. |
Chemistry World February 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Forcing stereoselectivity on reactive cations Chemists in the US have devised a dual catalyst strategy to tame the highly reactive iminium ion to give a high degree of stereochemical control over subsequent reactions of the ion. |
Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Boron is Key to Antifungal Agent Researchers have shown that the presence of a boron atom is key to an antifungal agent being developed to treat infections of fingernails and toenails. |
Chemistry World December 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic What turns a good synthesis into a great synthesis are the steps surrounding that motif, something that Darren Dixon from the University of Oxford, UK, exemplifies with this synthesis of Nakadomarin A. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Anisha Ratan |
Boroles get a stability boost Scientists from Germany have reported a breakthrough in borole stability, using bulky fluoromesityl groups, which could help these anti-aromatic molecules realize their potential in optoelectronic devices. |
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 December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch |
New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states. |
Chemistry World July 14, 2014 Tim Wogan |
First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China. |
Chemistry World January 24, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Hyperforin Studies of St John's wort have found several biologically active ingredients, but the primary agent is hyperforin, a potent inhibitor of several neurotransmitters. |
Chemistry World July 7, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Buckyball boron Systematic structure-searching calculations performed by scientists in China have put forward an all-boron analogue of fullerene: B 38. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Jennifer Newton |
Graphene looks to doped superbenzene to overcome electronic hurdles Building graphene from carefully-modified superbenzene segments has been proposed as a way to help graphene overcome a major stumbling block limiting its application in electronic devices. |
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Jessica Cocker |
Crystal structure highlights buckycatcher's flexibility Chemists in the US have successfully isolated the first anion of a distinctive type of pincer molecule, known as a buckycatcher, and confirmed the extraordinary flexibility it has for encapsulating guest molecules. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2012 Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2012 This year saw more work probing the nature of bonding. In Germany, Holger Braunschweig found that reacting a bis(N-heterocyclic carbene)-stabilized tetrabromodiborane with sodium naphthalene gave diborene or diboryne compounds with the world's first stable boron -- boron triple bond. |
Chemistry World May 21, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
H-bond partner-swapping seen in the flesh The dance moves that a water molecule makes as it flips hydrogen bonds from one partner to another have been captured by US researchers. |
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Space Monster Discovered Astrochemists who waited 25 years to find an anion in space have spotted three in less than a year. |
Chemistry World November 12, 2015 Simon Hadlington |
Jurassic pigment structure elucidation tickles chemists pink Chemists in Germany have elucidated the structure of an enigmatic pink pigment found in fossils of an alga that lived on Earth more than 150 million years ago. |
Chemistry World July 28, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Better batteries with pure lithium anodes Researchers in the US have developed a coating that could allow next generation batteries to have pure lithium anodes. |
Chemistry World May 9, 2014 Helen Bache |
Salt lakes worth their lithium Researchers in Japan have demonstrated the exceptional potential of a hydrated titanium oxide to extract lithium from salt lake brine collected from Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the world's largest salt flat. |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 |
Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge. |
Chemistry World May 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Borosulfate breaks through Henning Hoppe, together with a team from the University of Augsburg and Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg in Germany, created potassium borosulfate - K 5[B(SO 4) 4] - by heating potassium sulfate with boric and sulfuric acids. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Superhard Material Made at Ambient Pressure Inorganic chemists in the U.S. have synthesized a material that rivals the hardness of diamond, without needing to use extremely high pressure. |
Science News October 19, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 15, 1932 The saber-tooth strikes... Dangers of dust in industry described at safety congress... Scientist directs huge magnet in attack to smash atom... |