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Chemistry World June 12, 2015 Emma Davies	Pill endocrine disruptor cleaned up by catalyst A family of iron-based catalysts could cut the cost of removing an endocrine disrupting synthetic estrogen used in oral contraceptive pills from water supplies in half.
Chemistry World May 24, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Water purifier harnesses green chemistry Chemists in the US have created a water purifier that can remove organic toxins without the addition of acids or other harmful chemicals.
Chemistry World July 8, 2009 Lewis Brindley	New solution for dye wastewater pollution Stopping chemical dye waste from polluting rivers and waterways could be much easier in future, thanks to a cheap and recyclable metal oxide cleaning system developed by researchers in the US and China.
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 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 November 12, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Microscope Reveals Catalyst Secrets A promising technique for watching catalysts in action could provide new insights into how they work, report scientists in the Netherlands.
Chemistry World February 20, 2012 James Urquhart	Unusual kinetics of catalyst revealed US researchers have elucidated the unusual reaction kinetics of C-H activation by the palladium(II) catalyst (Pd(OAc) 2).
Chemistry World September 20, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Catalytic Polyoxometalate Plays Hide and Seek in MOF Chemists in the US have managed to enhance a catalyst that can be used to destroy toxic or smelly chemicals in the air.
Chemistry World August 20, 2008	Gold's Magic Number A new gold catalyst developed by UK chemists can catalyse hydrocarbon oxidation, using O 2 as the only oxidant. But catalyst particle size is critical - above 2nm diameter, the catalyst loses all activity.
Chemistry World September 2008 Elizabeth Milson	Sustainable water Water treated to an appropriate standard is required not only for drinking but also to satisfy all our domestic, industrial and agricultural needs.
Chemistry World April 9, 2010 Mike Brown	Going for silver: green plastic production Scientists in the US have identified a new class of catalyst based on subnanometer clusters of three silver atoms that could provide a greener route to propylene oxide - a key intermediate used to make thousands of everyday products
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 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 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 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 9, 2013 Emma Stoye	Water-splitting catalyst based on Prussian blue Prussian blue has been used for over 300 years as a pigment in dyes and an antidote to heavy metal poisoning. Researchers say it could help improve water splitting 'artificial leaf' technology, thanks to the catalytic activity of a cobalt-containing derivative.
Chemistry World October 21, 2012 Nina Notman	Haber-Bosch power consumption slashed A new type of ruthenium catalyst could reduce the power consumption of ammonia production, claim Japanese scientists.
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 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 December 10, 2010 Carl Saxton	Breaking news for the CO bond UK scientists have pinpointed the moment that the CO bond, the strongest bond of any diatomic molecule, breaks when oxidised by a gold catalyst.
Chemistry World February 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Molecule mimics molybdenum catalyst Chemists in the US have created a molecule that closely resembles the key active portion of molybdenum disulfide, an important solid industrial catalyst that shows promise for the generation of hydrogen from water.
Chemistry World June 18, 2013 Rowan Frame	Hydrogen generation using sunlight Scientists from Spain have found a catalyst that can use sunlight to power an important industrial reaction for the production of hydrogen at ambient temperatures.
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 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 February 19, 2009 James Urquhart	Selective catalyst cracks direct peroxide production A team of UK and US scientists have shown how hydrogen peroxide - an industrially important disinfectant and environmentally-friendly oxidizing agent - can be made directly from oxygen and hydrogen.
Chemistry World January 13, 2011 Mike Brown	Palladium helps gold catalyst go green Researchers have developed a catalyst that efficiently converts toluene into a useful industrial intermediate in a much greener process than traditional methods.
Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Charlie Quigg	Cheaper component for greenhouse gas reduction catalyst Scientists from China have replaced the tungsten oxide in a widely used greenhouse gas reduction catalyst with iron oxide, which improves the selectivity and reduces the cost of the catalyst.
Chemistry World August 18, 2011 Elinor Richards	Two for one - cleaning water and generating energy A fuel cell system that can generate electricity from organic compounds and clean up wastewater at the same time has been developed by scientists in China.
Chemistry World May 21, 2009 James Urquhart	Catalyst kinetics revealed French and UK scientists have developed a spectroscopy technique that has elucidated the reaction mechanism of a silver-alumina catalyst.
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 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 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 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 14, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Pico-gold clusters break catalysis record Chemists in Spain have shown that small clusters of gold atoms are excellent inorganic catalysts with record-breaking efficiency.
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 1, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Step Change for Organic Synthesis US chemists discovered how to attack a complex molecule's unreactive carbon-hydrogen bonds, without resorting to wasteful synthetic aids like protecting and directing groups.
Chemistry World February 7, 2012 James Urquhart	Treating hospital wastewater Researchers have found that hospital wastewater containing low concentrations of pharmaceutical compounds can be treated using a membrane bioreactor - an established method of biologically treating wastewater.
Chemistry World May 9, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Stan Golunski: Sustaining catalytic collaborations Stan Golunski is a professor of catalysis and deputy director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute. His research is in areas of heterogeneous catalysis that can be applied both synthetically and for environmental control.
Chemistry World April 30, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Anton Toutov: The power of potassium Toutov says the potassium catalyst he has developed costs only about $30 per mole, or less. 'It is safer and non-toxic, and a lot more cost-effective,' he states.
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 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 December 4, 2009 James Urquhart	Easier ester synthesis Researchers in the US have shown how oxygen-coated gold nanoparticles can selectively oxidise a variety of alcohols and aldehydes.
Chemistry World November 14, 2013 James Urquhart	Mysterious selectivity of nature's blowtorches solved US researchers have solved the long-standing mystery of how cytochrome P450 enzymes generate intermediates to perform demanding oxidations of inert C -- H bonds without damaging their fragile protein network in the process.
Chemistry World April 11, 2011 Mike Brown	One catalyst, two reactions Researchers in the US have designed a novel material that can catalyse two separate, sequential reactions to produce industrially relevant intermediates in one pot.
Food Processing March 2011 Dave Fusaro	Clean Your Wastewater Before the City Does Pretreatment technologies can pay for themselves in surcharge savings.
Chemistry World October 23, 2013 Emma Eley	Synthesis by sunlight Sustainable oxidation reactions can be performed with inexpensive and readily available photovoltaic cells
Chemistry World February 1, 2012 Jon Evans	Two become one for bio-oil upgrade The development of a couple of new and improved catalysts for upgrading bio-oil is bringing this novel approach to producing biofuels a step closer to the big time.
Chemistry World March 19, 2008 Kira Welter	'Designer' Catalyst Fights Fuel Cell Poisoning US scientists have designed a contaminant commonly found in hydrogen used to run fuel cells from first principles nanoparticles that efficiently oxidize carbon monoxide (CO)
Chemistry World October 1, 2010 Hayley Birch	On-off catalyst mimics enzyme function US and Japanese researchers have created an enzyme-like catalyst whose activity can be switched on or off using small molecules.