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Chemistry World August 24, 2009 James Urquhart |
Separating isomers with electric fields A new technique uses electrostatic fields at ultracold temperatures to isolate individual conformational isomers from a complex molecule. |
Chemistry World November 15, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Shedding light on ultracold reactions in space Two teams of researchers in the US and Europe have shown that light can play a bigger role than expected in the nascent field of ultracold atom-ion interactions. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Water Surprise for Atmospheric Scientists Lone water molecules can catalyze reactions between atmospheric gases, scientists have confirmed, throwing a wrench in the works of supposedly simple atmospheric chemistry. |
Chemistry World December 5, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Chemical reactions in hot water Chinese and Japanese chemists have highlighted hot water's ability to promote unexpected reactions without any other reagents or catalysts. The work should expand our understanding of how to harness the physicochemical properties of water to potentially replace more complex reagents and catalysts. |
Chemistry World January 17, 2014 Katia Moskvitch |
Life may have begun in a tiny water droplet Chemical reactions run much faster and more efficiently when they take place in tiny droplets rather than in freestanding water -- such as a puddle or a lake, say researchers. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Excess protons play hopscotch in water Scientists in the US have observed how excess protons move through water. |
Chemistry World October 16, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Helium happily shares electrons to create dianions Helium invariably sits with its arms tightly folded and refuses to participate in chemistry, but turns out to be surprisingly generous when it is in the right environment, willing to donate not just one but two electrons to neighboring species. |
Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Philip Ball |
Water's Surface is Acidic Pure, neutral water has an acid skin. This striking notion has now been confirmed by calculations and tests by an international team of scientists. The finding could be significant for a number of disciplines. |
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Jonathan Edwards |
Textbook Reaction Has a Subtle Twist The SN2 bimolecular nucleophilic substitution, a textbook reaction fundamental to organic synthesis, has a subtle twist, according to researchers. |
Chemistry World September 1, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Wendy Brown: Space dust chemistry Professor Wendy Brown's research reproduces the cold and low pressures of space to model chemical reactions that occur when particles are brought together on interstellar dust grains. |
Chemistry World December 16, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Radical experiment assesses interstellar nitrogen Radical reactions are challenging to measure at cold temperatures, but an international team of researchers have recently clocked the rate for atomic nitrogen and hydroxyl radicals at 56K. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2014 Andy Extance |
Cluster structure promises acid advance Mark Johnson's Yale team has become the first to capture vibrations of the hydronium ion in a protonated 21-water cluster |
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 28, 2010 Andy Extance |
Molecular interference reveals reactions Scientists can now see atoms reacting on the femtosecond timescale in unprecedented detail, thanks to a laser technique developed at the University of Ottawa. |
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 July 1, 2013 Laura Howes |
Quantum tunnelling in space Interstellar dust clouds might be host to more chemistry than previously imagined. |
Chemistry World September 28, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Helium nanodroplets host ion analysis Chemists have developed a sensitive new infrared spectroscopy method that analyses molecular ions by capturing them in nanosized bubbles of freezing helium. |
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2012 Melissae Fellet |
Synthesis by mass spectrometry Chemists have used mass spectrometry, commonly used to analyze molecules, to synthesize them on the microscale. |
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 April 4, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
A solution to fluoronium riddle The first evidence for hypervalent fluorine cations, or fluoronium ions, in solution has been found by US chemists. |
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 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 January 22, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
First Synchrotron for Neutral Molecules Scientists have built and demonstrated the first synchrotron to work on neutral molecules. It could be used to study collisions of cold, slow-moving molecules, allowing chemists to probe their behavior with a resolution impossible to achieve at higher temperatures. |
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 November 28, 2013 |
Put the chemistry back in medicinal chemistry Today, synthetic skill is valued and appreciated much less in medicinal chemistry than in chemical development, though it is equally important for both. Much of the blame lies with the mismeasurement of productivity. |
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 September 12, 2013 Andy Extance |
Sulfur difluoride dimer exposes bonding strangeness Calculations on unusual bonding in the sulfur difluoride dimer FSSF 3 have provided evidence to help explain why some compounds don't follow long-established chemical rules. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Optical conveyor belt gathers up molecules Researchers in Germany have developed a novel way to 'round up' biological molecules that are freely suspended in solution and trap them in a confined space using nothing more than light. |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Let's get physical The field of physical chemistry is booming, as more and more scientists seek to understand their work on a molecular level |
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 |
Nanostructures Made Easy Scotland-based chemists have invented a new way to build nanoscale arrays of molecules over a large surface area: a technique that may be key to making nanostructures in sophisticated sensors, catalysts, and tiny computer parts. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Lasers on the Energy Ski Slope Researchers have shown that intense laser-light pulses can act as catalysts, controlling the end products of a chemical reaction without themselves being absorbed. |
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. |
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley |
Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jon Evans |
World's smallest ice cube created Ice crystals must contain at least 275 water molecules, say German chemists. This size limit has implications for any process that involves ice particles, from cloud formation to making the perfect gin and tonic. |
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 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation. |
Chemistry World March 5, 2013 Amy Middleton-Gear |
Blink and you'll miss it Scientists in Germany have developed a new method for tracking single fluorescent molecules, using linear programming solvers. |
Chemistry World December 14, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Artificial intelligence for quantum chemistry Quantum chemical approximations don't always need to start from scratch, says an international team of researchers. Algorithms can now be used to predict the atomisation energy of huge numbers of molecules |
Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules Scientists in the US have developed an automated platform to create small organic molecules from a set of simple of chemical building blocks. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2012 Nina Notman |
A celebration of chemistry Simon Cotton's latest book, Every Molecule Tells a Story, is -- in his own words -- 'a celebration of molecules and of chemistry' aimed at school and university students, and their teachers. |
Chemistry World March 31, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Giving molecules a stretch A simple way to stretch small molecules and measure the forces at play has been developed by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World October 19, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Building Tomorrow's Nanofactory UK scientists have been granted 2.5 million pounds to invent a nanomachine that can build materials molecule by molecule. Such a robot doesn't -- and may never -- exist, though it has been imagined for over half a century. |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 |
Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2010 Carol Stanier |
Methane all lined up Swiss researchers have found that the way methane molecules vibrate when they hit a nickel surface can have a huge effect on their reactivity. |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter. |