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Chemistry World April 26, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Pnicogens link up as new bond is discovered German researchers have discovered a chemical oddity - a new type of intramolecular interaction between group 15 atoms, which is as strong as a hydrogen bond. These interactions could be used to build supramolecular structures.
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Reactive Reports November 2007 David Bradley	Organic Uranium The first ever uranium methylidyne molecule has been synthesized by US chemists despite the reactivity of the heavy, heavy metal.
Chemistry World March 2010 Philip Ball	Column: The crucible Superatoms reinforce the notion that chemistry is more about electrons than elements, says the author
Chemistry World March 25, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Germanium-Oxygen Double Bond Takes Centre Stage The first compound with a germanium-oxygen double bond has been created by Japanese scientists.
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 April 13, 2006 Jon Evans	Chemists Bring Alien Molecule Down to Earth Chemists have recreated an alien molecule in the laboratory by synthesising a stable version of the carbene cyclopropenylidene. Cyclopropenylidene was first detected by radio astronomers in 1985, and is now the most abundant cyclic hydrocarbon observed in interstellar space.
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 November 28, 2008 Manisha Lalloo	Elusive cation caught in a cage Chemists have isolated the elusive and highly reactive germanium dication by trapping it in a molecular cage.
Chemistry World May 22, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Xenon doubled up with water Creating a water molecule with two noble gas atoms interpolated into its structure sounds an improbable feat, but a international team of researchers now claim to have trapped just such an exotic compound in xenon.
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
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Chemistry World October 5, 2006 Mark Peplow	Boron Shows Its Negative Side A molecule that hosts a negatively-charged boron atom could prove to be an exciting addition to the chemist's toolbox, according to researchers who have isolated the anion as its lithium salt.
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 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.
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 December 16, 2013 Tim Wogan	Calculations predict stable eight nitrogen molecule Nitrogen could form an N 8 molecular crystal at low temperatures, according to density functional theory calculations done by Israeli and US researchers.
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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 December 20, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Off-the-Peg Organic Synthesis Goes Commercial Chemists have created an efficient way to make small molecules by repeatedly using just one coupling reaction to clip together pre-prepared chemical fragments is going commercial.
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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.
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Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge.
Chemistry World November 18, 2014 Tim Wogan	New silicon allotrope could revolutionize solar cells A new, direct band gap allotrope of silicon has been synthesized by researchers in the US. It could potentially revolutionize solar cells and light-emitting devices.
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 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Desperately Seeking Silicon Silicon has been blamed for the faulty fuel that caused thousands of UK cars to break down last week. How can a silvery-gray semi-metal popularly known to be used in computer chips have found its way into gasoline?
Chemistry World May 4, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Nanomachinery gets a spring in its step Molecular springs that always twist the same way are the latest addition to the nanomachinery toolbox.
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Nerve gas detection in a fraction of a second A new molecule that detects and destroys lethal nerve gases has been developed by researchers in the US.
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Isotope effect seen on single molecule The isotope effect - where the rate of a reaction is altered depending on the presence of a given isotopic atom in the reactant - is a key tool for elucidating reaction mechanisms
Chemistry World October 28, 2014 Derek Lowe	Chemical space is big. Really big. We are not going to run out of interesting and useful structures, and the uses that they could be put to are probably also beyond our imagining. In chemical space, we really do have an effectively endless frontier.
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 13, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Exploding molecule provides 3D bond images Researchers from the US and Germany have demonstrated a new way to obtain accurate three-dimensional images of molecules, with precise measurements of the geometry of the molecule's chemical bonds.
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.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003	Light makes molecule shine Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan have constructed a fluorescent molecule that can be repeatedly switched on and off. If a way can be found to switch individual, closely-packed molecules on and off, fantastic amounts of information could be stored in very small spaces.
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Chemistry World January 3, 2012 Simon Hadlington	One-pot synthesis creates anticancer candidates Researchers in Germany have developed a simple, rapid and high-yielding cascade synthesis of a collection of polycyclic compounds that resemble indole alkaloid natural products and which interfere with cell division.
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Chemistry World October 7, 2014 Jennifer Newton	FBNCO: all the 2p-block elements in one molecule Scientists in Italy have made a molecule with one of each of the 2p-block elements. Well, almost. There's no neon in FBNCO but it would be a bit unfair to expect them to include an element with no known chemistry.
Chemistry World July 23, 2012 David Bradley	The buzz about finding new allotropes Researchers in China have homed in on possible new allotropes of carbon, silicon and germanium using a particle swarm structure search technique.
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Santiago Alvarez	What we mean when we talk about bonds The chemical bond is still a matter of lively debate among chemists, even a century after Gilbert Lewis introduced his electron pair bonding concept.
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 May 12, 2011 Jon Cartwright	'Chemical soldering' heralds single molecule electronics Scientists in Japan and Switzerland have demonstrated how to wire up single molecules with conductive nanowires.
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Saswato R. Das	A Crowd of Quantum Entanglements Phosphorus-in-silicon system could lead to quantum computers