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Chemistry World February 21, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules. |
Chemistry World October 16, 2015 Philippa Matthews |
One pot recipe for incompatible catalytic transformations Researchers from the US have demonstrated a new catalyst support structure allowing two incompatible catalysts to work in tandem. |
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 May 9, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Iron catalyst breaks the mold An iron catalyst that is not only greener than many of its precious metal competitors, but also catalyses reactions that they can't, could open new avenues in transition metal catalysis, say Chinese researchers. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Andy Extance |
Catalyst duo exerts powerful stereocontrol Chemists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, have teamed chiral catalysts in pairs to selectively drive a reaction towards desired stereoisomeric products with high selectivity. |
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 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 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 December 23, 2015 Karl Collins |
Scratching chiral surfaces There are numerous challenges to developing reactions that exploit chiral surfaces, or employ molecular modifiers (ligands) to create a chiral surface environment and control the stereoselectivity of a transformation. |
Chemistry World August 11, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Non-metal-catalysed C-C coupling Chinese chemists have successfully coupled aromatic molecules without the use of a transition metal catalyst - something that people have been trying to do for years with little success. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 Andy Extance |
Base metal catalysts strike hydrogenation gold Three teams have shown that chemists need not rely only on expensive and toxic precious metal catalysts for hydrogenation -- they've found complementary alternatives based on cheap, abundant and safer transition metals. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Catalyst flexes for extra control US chemists have developed a new type of catalyst capable of exerting high stereochemical control over olefin metathesis reactions |
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 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 April 10, 2008 Mark Peplow |
'Pot-in-a-Pot' Technique Makes Impossible Cascade Reactions Easy A simple technique that nests a series of reaction vessels could help chemists avoid the tedium and expense of purifying organic compounds after each step of a long synthesis. |
Chemistry World February 11, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Oxidation Goes Green A new 'green' strategy for making useful nitrogen-based chemicals has been announced by chemists in the UK. |
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 March 8, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Carbon nanotubes - a boon for chiral catalysts Researchers in China have created a new catalyst that could help in the production of chiral molecules for medical drugs. The catalyst, which consists of platinum nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon nanotubes, is the most active of its type ever reported. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Single catalyst gives two products from racemic mixture Chemists in the US have demonstrated a remarkable reaction in which a single catalyst can transform a racemic mixture - molecules identical in every way except for their chirality - into two distinct enantiomerically pure products. |
Chemistry World October 18, 2011 Steve Down |
Cofactor Control of Catalysis Enantioselectivity Scientists have used cofactors to control the enantioselectivity of supramolecular transition metal catalysts, enabling the asymmetric hydrogenation of a series of acrylates and related compounds with remarkably high selectivities. |
Chemistry World February 21, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Esters Made Easy with Indium Indium is the basis of a novel catalyst designed to make useful cyclic esters. This catalyst could greatly simplify the production of chiral dihydropyranones, important structural elements in many natural products and pharmaceuticals. |
Chemistry World April 18, 2012 Elinor Richards |
Homogeneous Catalyst Recovery Made Easier Scientists have now found a way to recover homogeneous catalysts at the end of a chemical reaction that doesn't suffer from the slow reaction rates that affect current catalyst recovery systems. |
Chemistry World September 22, 2015 Andy Extance |
Firming COFs up takes Michael reaction catalysis forward By making formerly fragile covalent organic frameworks resistant to harsh conditions, researchers have created what they think could be a powerful new catalyst concept. |
Chemistry World July 16, 2013 Harriet Brewerton |
Accelerating stereochemical analysis A chemosensor has been developed by scientists in the US to speed up the quantitative stereochemical analysis of chiral amino alcohols and diamines. |
Chemistry World February 6, 2015 Elisabeth Ratcliffe |
Exploiting the chirality of DNA DNA has emerged as an innovative way of controlling the chirality of a reaction product by binding catalysts in such a way that one enantiomer is preferentially generated. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Death of a reagent Anyone who's been practicing organic chemistry for a while can think back to reactions and reagents that were once in far wider use than they are today. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Chiral metals shape up for catalysis Dutch and Israeli scientists have found a way to induce the chirality usually only found in organic materials in palladium. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Engineering serendipity At this stage in the world of organic chemistry, you'd have to think that many of the great reactions that can be stumbled across with known reagents have probably been found. |
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 April 4, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
More to Catalysis Than Meets the Eye Catalysts are more than just a reactive surface. Changes beneath a metal's skin can completely change the course of a reaction. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Emma Eley |
Sustainable iron catalyst for clean hydrogenation An international team of chemists has reported a clean and green way to perform one of the most important industrial reactions for pharmaceutical and petrochemical synthesis. |
Chemistry World April 7, 2015 Hugh Cowley |
The Goldilocks of heterogeneous catalysis An international team of scientists has tethered palladium to a metal -- organic framework support using thiol groups normally associated with catalyst poisoning |
Chemistry World September 18, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Shining a light on amine synthesis A new method for site selective amination of aromatic organic compounds has been developed by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World July 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Synthetic enzyme catalyses Diels-Alder reaction The reaction is key to many organic syntheses and suggests that artificial enzymes could soon become part of the synthetic chemist's toolkit. |
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 April 28, 2010 Mike Brown |
Producing hydrogen from sea water A new catalyst that generates hydrogen from sea water has been developed by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World July 20, 2006 Jessica Ebert |
Golden Touch for Amines Aminobenzene chemicals are used to make anything from dyes to pharmaceuticals, and now scientists have found a way to produce them in a more efficient way using a gold catalyst. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2010 Elinor Richards |
Graphene catalyst comes out on top Sulfonated graphene solid acid catalysts could be cheap, environmentally friendly alternatives to concentrated sulfuric acid for use in industry because they can be recycled, say scientists from China. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2010 Hayley Birch |
New strategy yields best ever catalyst for ammonia decomposition US researchers have developed a new strategy for predicting bimetallic catalysts. |
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 September 4, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Two catalysts better than one US researchers have cracked a long standing problem in chemical synthesis - the catalytic alpha-alkylation of aldehydes - by combining two catalysts in one pot. |
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 September 21, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Enzymes inspire new catalyst design for hydrogen production A novel enzyme-based catalyst developed by UK and US researchers hints at new ways of designing catalysts for the water-gas shift reaction, an important industrial reaction in the production of high grade hydrogen. |
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 September 13, 2013 Anthony King |
Spinning a catalytic yarn Scientists in Germany have revealed a revolutionary new support for catalysts -- cloth. They succeeded in permanently securing organocatalysts onto nylon using ultraviolet light, without any need for chemical modification. |
Chemistry World April 6, 2009 Nina Notman |
Torn catalysts help polymers heal themselves Catalysts that are activated by a mechanical force tearing them in two have been designed by Dutch scientists. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2008 Emma Davies |
Biofuels coming to a town near you? A new Fischer-Tropsch catalyst could offer the potential for agricultural waste to be turned into biofuel at small local plants |
Chemistry World May 15, 2014 Jenifer Mizen |
Freeze-dried cells make better biocatalysts A biocatalytic cascade using mashed-up cells has overcome extraction and solubility problems associated with using enzymes in chemical syntheses. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Bio-Inspired Catalyst Design Could Rival Platinum French scientists have demonstrated the potential of a new fuel cell catalyst inspired by hydrogenase enzymes. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |