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Chemistry World February 20, 2013 Amy Middleton-Gear |
Ohmic heating for efficient green synthesis Portuguese scientists have developed a new ohmic-heating reactor for organic syntheses on water, or chemistry using an aqueous suspension of the reactants. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Elinor Richards |
Magical microwaves Microwaves have been used to promote organic reactions since the 1980s and they can lead to higher yields and shorter reaction times than conventional heating, but why? |
Chemistry World October 2, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Microwave effect ruled out Microwave reactions in silicon carbide vials - which are heated by microwaves but shield the contents from radiation - have confirmed that most of the benefits seen in microwave-assisted chemistry are purely due to heating |
Chemistry World January 23, 2014 Doris Dallinger |
Laboratory experiments using microwave heating Leadbeater and McGowan's book is designed as a textbook for the undergraduate laboratory, Laboratory experiments using microwave heating is a valuable addition to the range of microwave books available. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2013 Anthony King |
Microwave quarrel heats up A brouhaha over microwave heating in organic reactions has escalated after the two research groups involved penned barbed correspondences aimed at each other's approaches in Angewandte Chemie. |
Chemistry World October 22, 2013 Marie Cote |
Oliver Kappe: Freedom to explore Oliver Kappe is professor of chemistry at the University of Graz in Austria. Research in the Kappe group focuses on enabling technologies for synthesis, including microwave and continuous flow methods. |
Chemistry World September 10, 2014 Anthony King |
Debate over microwave boost to reactions rumbles on Researchers at Florida State University report two new papers that support a microwave-specific heating effect. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2011 Sarah Corcoran |
Unclogging the problems of flow chemistry US scientists have found a way to stop solid byproducts clogging channels in continuous flow reactors, a problem that has hampered their progress for use in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. |
Chemistry World November 2007 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline Chemists are finally going with the flow. |
Chemistry World May 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Keeping it Green Some chemistry enthusiastically labeled as green may be nothing of the kind, warn researchers who worry that mediocre -- if well-meaning -- science is damaging their subject. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2009 Tom Bond |
Catalyst free carbon-carbon bond formation The method offers an environmentally friendly way to form one of the most important bonds in organic synthesis. |
Chemistry World August 6, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
3D printed reactionware hots up UK researchers have shown that it is possible to carry out a range of hydrothermal chemical syntheses in sealed reactors made from 3D printed polypropylene. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 John Hayward |
Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide. |
Chemistry World September 4, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Light in the Lab We organic chemists do terrible things to our molecules. How about dissolving the starting materials up in a flask, shining a light into the mixture and coming back later to find it transformed into your product? That's photochemistry. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2012 Duncan Macquarrie |
Environmentally friendly teaching Green Organic Chemistry in Lecture and Laboratory edited by Andrew Dicks covers a wide range of key themes, ranging from the 12 principles of green chemistry via various different approaches to conventional synthetic procedures, waste management and more. |
Chemistry World September 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Corey Stephenson of Boston University is an expert a type of reaction called photochemical reduction-oxidation. He has charmed photons into performing many chemical tricks, but one is a photoredox dehalogenation using blue light and a ruthenium bipyridyl catalyst. |
Reactive Reports Issue 33 |
Star Picks A series of full-text online books on chromatography by Dr. RPW Scott... The Accident Database, as its name would suggest, contains information on 13,000 records of accidents and close calls in industry... The microwave-assisted organic synthesis website |
Chemistry World October 2007 Derek Lowe |
In the Pipeline One of the biggest areas of chemical research these days is in catalytic processes. It's one of the places we can really improve our processes, especially when you count the waste stream (as you should) as part of the total energy bill. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Flow Reactors Enter the Rapids Continuous flow chemistry's promise to shake up synthesis gathered momentum this month, with the first Uniqsis Flow Chemistry Symposium. |
Food Engineering March 6, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins |
Matter's fourth dimension Atmospheric plasma is the term physicists typically use to describe a microwave heating technology developed for metal joining, but it also holds promise for food. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2013 Derek Lowe |
What's the use? Work that claims to be useful in chemistry often ends up teetering on the edges of the Canyons of Triviality or Decadence. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2015 James Morey |
Organic synthesis: state of the art -- 2011--2013 This book would be ideal for those needing to be on top of the literature in synthetic organic chemistry, but who don't have the time to read the ever-increasing body of pertinent articles. |
Chemistry World February 2008 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Cast a skeptical eye over new ideas in chemistry. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 Amy Middleton-Gear |
Stirring microwave synthesis It is next to impossible to achieve good mixing with traditional magnetic stir bars in the cylindrical vessels used in microwave synthesis. So scientists in Austria have designed a new stir bar. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2014 Karl Collins |
Organic chemistry: a mechanistic approach Aimed at undergraduate chemistry students, this relatively succinct text begins with the fundamentals of molecular structure and introduces the concept of molecular orbitals early. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Name reactions: how does the label stick? Some of these names go back to the 19th century, and many more of them come from the first decades of the 20th. Once in a while, I wonder if the tradition is dying out. Are we still naming chemical reactions after their discoverers? |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
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 May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
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 July 9, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Pharma goes green to cut costs The pharmaceutical industry's current drive to curb spending is helping to speed the adoption of green chemistry, say experts in the industry. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Graeme Armstrong |
Good Chemistry We must improve the chemistry between industry and society. |
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 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 October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Chemistry World December 12, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Aqueous Fischer-Tropsch is Clean and Green Chinese chemists have carried out the Fischer-Tropsch reaction in water for the first time, bringing a greener route to hydrocarbon fuels a step closer. |
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 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 November 2007 |
Book Reviews A review of books on: good clinical & laboratory practices, green chemistry, environmental chemistry, organic reactions in water, universal asymmetry, and molecular models for fluids. |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Dick Wife An interview with the chemical IT scientist and co-founder of SORD, a scientific publishing company that seeks to solve the problem of organizing the myriad of undocumented chemistry and the chaotic mess of the commercial database. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Under pressure Someone interviewing for a synthetic chemistry position had better know his or her organic chemistry. It's fair to ask questions that will make sure of that. But does a candidate need to know the curly-arrow details of reactions that they'll never run? |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Karl Collins |
An 'Aye' for details Today, using methods developed by masters of their trade, the modern greats of total synthesis demonstrate that almost any molecule can be prepared given time and effort. |
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 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 April 15, 2012 Jon Evans |
Synthetic chemists print labware to order Not only do 3D printers offer the possibility of producing vessels with much more complex architectures, but the vessels can be designed to influence the course of the reaction or even to take part in it. |
Information Today July 2, 2015 |
Thieme Chemistry Updates Synthetic Organic Chemistry Resource Thieme Chemistry rolled out the newest release of its Science of Synthesis 4.1, which is a full-text resource for methods and experimental procedures in synthetic organic chemistry. |
Food Engineering March 1, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins |
Microwave Systems: Revoluntionary Lightwaves Boost Quality Signal variability has blocked widespread use of microwave technology in food processing. That is about to change. |
Reactive Reports Issue 49 |
Star Picks Chemogenesis is an e-book that goes in depth into chemical reactions and reactivity... Check out the Wiki books on chemistry for an open source chemistry textbook... |
Chemistry World February 2009 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Survival of the fattest The results of the UK's 2008 research assessment exercise, a national audit of university research quality, were announced late last year, and they were good news for the country's chemistry departments. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2010 |
Chemistry at Sussex under threat again The department, which topped The Guardian's 2010 university league table for chemistry, is set to lose some 40 per cent of its faculty, according to Phil Parsons, head of organic chemistry at Sussex. |