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Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
Chemistry World June 10, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
A green and salty chiral catalyst An efficient, chiral, salt-based hypervalent iodine catalyst has been discovered by Japanese chemists that could replace toxic metal catalysts without generating the waste or explosion risks associated with hypervalent organo-iodine complexes. |
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 July 26, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Counterion Does the Twist US chemists have achieved a breakthrough in the design of catalysts that selectively produce chiral compounds. |
Chemistry World August 15, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Trifluoromethylation Made Easy US researchers have discovered a simple, low-cost way to add fluorine atoms to heteroaromatic rings. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2015 Andy Extance |
Copper catalysis overcomes double bond trouble Some carbon-carbon double bonds seem too unreactive for synthetic use -- but that's just how chemists in the US are now exploiting them. |
Chemistry World July 9, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
'Molecular cobra' turns C-H to C=C A reagent developed by US chemists can selectively introduce synthetically useful C=C double bonds into unactivated carbon chains, guided by an activating group attached to a nearby oxygen or nitrogen atom. |
Chemistry World September 6, 2006 Michael Gross |
Selective Shortcut Chemists have developed a simple catalyst that speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in many complex syntheses. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2013 James Mitchell Crow |
Tapping proton power for enantioselective synthesis A simple proton is the key to a novel approach by US-based chemists to synthesize chiral amines and alcohols -- a structural motif common to many organic molecules with pharmaceutical promise. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
New Catalyst Rings the Changes Organic chemists in the US have developed a method to control the stereochemistry of a useful intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. |
Chemistry World November 6, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror European chemists have discovered that both mirror-image forms of a particular compound can bind at the same time in the same site of an enzyme, a phenomenon that has never been seen before. |
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Carbon can't but tin can US chemists have discovered that distannynes - tin-based analogues of acetylenes - can react reversibly with ethene to make cyclic complexes. |
Chemistry World March 19, 2009 Manisha Lalloo |
Copper catalysts give meta aromatics UK Researchers have discovered that, simply by using a copper catalyst, they are able to perform tricky substitution reactions at a difficult position on benzene rings |
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 June 13, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Asymmetric ketone catalysis gets pharma-scale makeover An asymmetric catalysis reaction limited to laboratory syntheses has received a makeover that could see it used on a large scale by drug-makers. |
Chemistry World November 2, 2015 |
Batzelladine B Of all the diverse substances that nature produces, the alkaloids -- small molecules containing basic nitrogen -- have had the greatest impact on human history and health. |
Chemistry World May 31, 2009 Nina Notman |
The natural approach to winning at drug discovery High throughput drug screening is often described as a casino, with the odds stacked on the side of success as long as a big enough library is used. |
Chemistry World August 30, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Toxins' Synthesis Secret Cracked US chemists have discovered that using water instead of organic solvents is the key to understanding how algae make toxins called ladder polyethers. |
Chemistry World December 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Breaking the strongest bonds Chemists have uncovered a way to sever two of the strongest bonds in chemistry - in dinitrogen and carbon monoxide - and make useful organic compounds. |
Chemistry World November 2010 |
Carbon Couplers Take the Prize Three giants of organic chemistry, who pioneered palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions, have shared this year's Nobel prize. |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Enzymes have been giving chemists inferiority complexes since day one, says Derek Lowe. But there's no denying their potential |
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 January 17, 2014 Phillip Broadwith |
Plug and play redox enzymes With the constant drive to make chemical synthesis ever cleaner, more energy-efficient and generate less waste -- both in research and industrial processes -- more and more chemists are looking to harness enzyme catalysis. |
Chemistry World December 9, 2013 Jessica Cocker |
Hydrogen breaks strong bonds with brute force A method developed by Leo Lau of Western University in Canada and colleagues can break C -- H bonds without damaging the rest of the molecule. |
Chemistry World July 13, 2015 Philip Ball |
First snapshot of elusive intermediate supplies surprise A team near Zurich in Switzerland, has been able to take a single-molecule snapshot of an intermediate in a common class of organic reactions. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Slick synthesis to sea sponge structure Chemists in the US have devised a new route to (-)-cyanthiwigin F, a complex biomolecule active against tumors |
Reactive Reports Issue 54 David Bradley |
Metals Take on Carbon's Bonding Characteristics A rethink about chemical bonding might be in the cards thanks to research that shows that the metal indium forms bonds in a manner not dissimilar to organic carbon atoms. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Karl Collins |
Oxidation station Small molecules are making significant inroads -- with reactivity and selectivity approaching levels previously thought unachievable. |
Chemistry World January 6, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Enzymes do the twist The way enzyme catalysts bind molecules to speed up their reactions is not as simple as once thought, say chemists from the UK and Spain. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Metal ions give rise to threaded molecules Chemists in France have developed a simple method to synthesize tricky '[3]rotaxane' molecules for potential applications in intelligent materials and molecular machines. |
Chemistry World September 6, 2013 Melissae Fellet |
Unravelling stereochemistry via mass spectrometry Researchers have used mass spectrometry to determine the stereochemistry of a prototypical chiral molecule, CHBrClF. |
Chemistry World November 25, 2014 James Urquhart |
Nanomolar chemistry enables 1500 experiments in a single day Chemists have conducted over 1500 chemistry experiments in under a day thanks to a miniaturized, high throughput automation platform they developed for identifying how synthetic molecules react under various conditions. |
Chemistry World November 13, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Reactions Studied by Stop Motion Japanese and Israeli scientists have developed a technique that can track whole-molecule changes that occur during extremely rapid reactions. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2006 Michael Gross |
Insecticide Simplified A rapid, flexible way to make variants of potent insecticide molecules known as spinosyns could help to combat the growing problem of insect resistance, according to German chemists. |
Chemistry World September 10, 2014 Andy Extance |
'Assembly line' sculpts carbon chains UK chemists have devised a precise process for building carbon chains a link at a time that packs in more side groups than biologically-derived molecules can. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? |
Wired Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. |
Chemistry World March 3, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Hydrocarbon turns superconductor Researchers in Japan have created the first superconducting material based on a molecule of carbon and hydrogen atoms. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2006 Michael Gross |
New Twists on Catalysis Chemists around the world have discovered several new twists to improve the performance of asymmetric catalysts in hydrogenation reactions. |
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 January 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Fruity route to control asymmetric syntheses Chemists in the UK have discovered a quick, cheap and easy way to make a key sulfide reagent that can mediate the formation of chirally selective molecules needed for complex organic syntheses. |
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 March 21, 2007 Alison Stoddart |
Synthesis Strategy Offers no Protection A radically different approach to constructing complex molecules could help to tap the pharmaceutical potential of natural products. |
Chemistry World January 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
New 'click' reaction to modify proteins Chemists in the US have discovered a new way to attach small molecules to proteins and peptides under mild, aqueous reaction conditions. |
Chemistry World March 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
New synthesis for chiral anticancer compound The promising anticancer compound nutlin-3 is likely to become more widely available to researchers thanks to a new synthetic protocol developed by US chemists. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Bryostatin Synthesis Made Simple US chemists have dramatically shortened the synthesis of byrostatin 16, one of a family of natural products that show promising activity against cancer but can't easily be extracted from nature or made artificially. |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
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 August 1, 2010 Mike Brown |
Snapshots of mystery molecular structures Researchers have used atomic force microscopy to produce clear molecular images that can help determine the correct atomic structure of unknown organic molecules. |
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 |