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Chemistry World
August 24, 2010
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A better way to add radioactive fluorine Making compounds that contain the useful radioisotope fluorine-18 ( 18F) could be much easier in future, say researchers in the UK and Finland.   |
Chemistry World
August 17, 2009
James Urquhart |
New method for fluorinating compounds Fluorine atoms are incorporated into aromatic organic compounds for many reasons, including their ability to increase metabolic stability, solubility and bioavailability. |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2012
Amy Middleton-Gear |
Early Alzheimer's diagnosis compound UK and US scientists have developed a labelled tracer compound that binds to plaques closely associated with Alzheimer's disease so that the plaques can be picked up by a medical imaging technique. |
Chemistry World
January 11, 2013
Marie Cote |
Following her passion Veronique Gouverneur is professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK. She investigates fluorine chemistry and is working on developing novel synthetic methodologies for the preparation of fluorinated targets. |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Aryl rings get a fluorine fix A mild and effective method for coupling trifluoromethyl groups on to aryl rings has been developed by US chemists. |
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
August 12, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Chemists hold a candle to reagent preservation Scientists in the US now have a solution to end the build-up of chemical waste with a wax capsule that can protect reagents from the atmosphere. |
Chemistry World
April 28, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
New method for aromatic coupling Chemists in Switzerland have developed a way to couple aromatic rings through the Friedel-Crafts mechanism - something many people would have believed impossible. |
Chemistry World
September 13, 2012
Ian Le guillou |
Fluorination via porphyrin A manganese porphyrin has been used to selectively fluorinate sp 3 carbon -- hydrogen bonds using silver fluoride as a source of fluorine. |
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
August 15, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Trifluoromethylation Made Easy US researchers have discovered a simple, low-cost way to add fluorine atoms to heteroaromatic rings. |
Chemistry World
December 21, 2006
Tom Westgate |
Molecular Probe Identifies Patients at Risk of Alzheimer's A new molecule could provide an early warning system for Alzheimer's disease, US researchers hope. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2006
Simon Hadlington |
Natural Metabolism of Fluorine Scientists have isolated a cluster of bacterial genes responsible for the biochemical processing of fluorine. The research follows the discovery of a unique enzyme that incorporates inorganic fluoride into organic metabolites. |
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
September 28, 2015
Karl Collins |
A witches' brew for trifluoromethylation Trifluoromethylating phenols is one example of a reaction that would be incredibly useful when attempting to tune the chemical and biological properties of molecules for pharmaceutical and agrochemical research. |
Chemistry World
June 7, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Pd(III) catalysis insight The discovery of a bimetallic palladium(III) complex that can catalyse the formation of carbon-heteroatom bonds adds a new facet to our understanding of the chemistry of one of the most widely-used metals in catalysis, say US chemists. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
A New Way to Look at the Brain Researchers have for the first time scanned the human brain with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging simultaneously. The work introduces the possibility of obtaining both highly specific functional data together with anatomical information in a single scan. |
Chemistry World
September 20, 2012
Jessica Cocker |
Biological fate of nanoparticles in the body Nanoparticles are extremely difficult to detect and measure once they are distributed in a biological system. Now, Spanish scientists have developed a novel way for measuring their biodistribution. |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Heather Williams: Science is for everyone Heather Williams is a medical physicist at Central Manchester University Hospitals who specializes in positron emission tomography. She is also an advocate for women in science. |
Chemistry World
January 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Some medicinal chemists can't get enough fluorines in their molecules. The love-hate relationship is explained. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2011
Laura Howes |
Cells as test tubes Chemists have used living cells as test tubes to carry out chemical reactions never before seen within living cells. |
Chemistry World
June 2007
Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey This PhD student takes an organic chemist's tour around the periodic table. |
