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Chemistry World December 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Breaking the strongest bonds Chemists have uncovered a way to sever two of the strongest bonds in chemistry - in dinitrogen and carbon monoxide - and make useful organic compounds. |
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Double bonding with silicon In a landmark for silicon chemistry, US researchers have reported the first stable silicon (0) compound to contain a silicon-silicon double bond. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2006 Mark Peplow |
Boron Shows Its Negative Side A molecule that hosts a negatively-charged boron atom could prove to be an exciting addition to the chemist's toolbox, according to researchers who have isolated the anion as its lithium salt. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Boron and beryllium finally shake hands Beryllium bis(diazaborolyl) features the first non-cluster bond between boron and beryllium. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2012 Andy Extance |
Calculations reveal carbon-carbon quadruple bond C 2's two carbon atoms aren't joined by a double bond as usually thought, or even a triple bond, but in fact a quadruple bond. |
Reactive Reports November 2007 David Bradley |
Organic Uranium The first ever uranium methylidyne molecule has been synthesized by US chemists despite the reactivity of the heavy, heavy metal. |
Chemistry World August 29, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Breaking the bonds of global warming US scientists have managed to prise apart the highly unreactive carbon-fluorine bond at room temperature, potentially paving the way to the efficient disposal of hydrofluorocarbons -- highly stable and long-lived greenhouse gases. |
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Carbon can't but tin can US chemists have discovered that distannynes - tin-based analogues of acetylenes - can react reversibly with ethene to make cyclic complexes. |
Chemistry World December 16, 2013 Tim Wogan |
Calculations predict stable eight nitrogen molecule Nitrogen could form an N 8 molecular crystal at low temperatures, according to density functional theory calculations done by Israeli and US researchers. |
Chemistry World May 13, 2013 Philip Ball |
The name's (quadruple) bond? The nature of C 2 is still imperfectly understood and has recently sparked extensive debate in the chemical literature. The question seems simple: how are the two atoms bonded? |
Chemistry World October 22, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Carbenes catalyse metal-metal bonds in organometallics Chemists in the US have discovered a novel way to transform organometallic compounds so that new metal-metal bonds are created. |
Chemistry World April 14, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Osmium and pyridine ring together Organic chemists in China have found a way to put osmium into a pyridine ring - leading to the synthesis of the first metallapyridinium complex. |
Chemistry World April 13, 2006 Jon Evans |
Chemists Bring Alien Molecule Down to Earth Chemists have recreated an alien molecule in the laboratory by synthesising a stable version of the carbene cyclopropenylidene. Cyclopropenylidene was first detected by radio astronomers in 1985, and is now the most abundant cyclic hydrocarbon observed in interstellar space. |
Chemistry World September 14, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
World's Longest Carbon-Carbon Bond Created Harnessing both attractive and repulsive forces enabled chemists to make a carbon-carbon bond 30 per cent long than normal. |
Chemistry World September 19, 2014 Hugh Cowley |
Quintuple bond activates small stable molecules The activation of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide by a quintuply bonded dichromium complex has been reported by a team of researchers from Germany. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Houdini Molecule Escapes Energy Trap A team of international chemists has captured and caught on camera a small, elusive molecule that has previously never been seen. |
Chemistry World April 26, 2011 Manisha Lalloo |
Pnicogens link up as new bond is discovered German researchers have discovered a chemical oddity - a new type of intramolecular interaction between group 15 atoms, which is as strong as a hydrogen bond. These interactions could be used to build supramolecular structures. |
Chemistry World August 14, 2012 Andy Extance |
Carbon clusters score lucky seven US and Chinese chemists say that they've calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication that would have a higher coordination number than any yet seen experimentally. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Santiago Alvarez |
What we mean when we talk about bonds The chemical bond is still a matter of lively debate among chemists, even a century after Gilbert Lewis introduced his electron pair bonding concept. |
Chemistry World February 6, 2012 David Bradley |
10 out of 10 for boron's coordinated effort A team in the US has created a boron compound that has the highest coordination number of any planar species, squeezing 10 spoke-like bonds from a central metal hub to 10 boron atoms equally spaced around a nanoscopic wheel. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2010 James Urquhart |
Disilicate synthesis success A compound containing a stable silicon-silicon bond between two negatively charged pentacoordinated silicon atoms - silicates - has been synthesized and isolated for the first time by Japanese researchers. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2012 Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2012 This year saw more work probing the nature of bonding. In Germany, Holger Braunschweig found that reacting a bis(N-heterocyclic carbene)-stabilized tetrabromodiborane with sodium naphthalene gave diborene or diboryne compounds with the world's first stable boron -- boron triple bond. |
Chemistry World June 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success |
Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Lead joins the aromatic ring club Scientists in Japan have successfully incorporated an atom of lead into an aromatic molecule - the heaviest metal so far to be 'aromatised'. |
Chemistry World March 25, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Germanium-Oxygen Double Bond Takes Centre Stage The first compound with a germanium-oxygen double bond has been created by Japanese scientists. |
Reactive Reports Issue 54 David Bradley |
Metals Take on Carbon's Bonding Characteristics A rethink about chemical bonding might be in the cards thanks to research that shows that the metal indium forms bonds in a manner not dissimilar to organic carbon atoms. |
Chemistry World January 18, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Bending the rules for arynes Two teams of synthetic and computational chemists in the US have developed complementary explanations for the unusual selectivity observed in reactions of indolynes. |
Chemistry World September 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
One dimensional carbon chains get longer Researchers in Canada have synthesised the longest polyyne to date - a linear chain of carbon atoms. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Breaking the carbon-fluorine bond US chemists have discovered a new way to break the bond between carbon and fluorine atoms - the strongest carbon bond there is. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2007 Michael Gross |
Nanowires go Round the Bend Chemists have bent an apparently linear molecular wire into a closed circle, creating a conducting ring just 3 nanometers across. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Anisha Ratan |
Boroles get a stability boost Scientists from Germany have reported a breakthrough in borole stability, using bulky fluoromesityl groups, which could help these anti-aromatic molecules realize their potential in optoelectronic devices. |
Chemistry World March 2012 |
Column: In the pipeline Drug discovery requires experimentation, says Derek Lowe. But chemists can be reluctant to stray from the elements they know and love |
Chemistry World October 31, 2013 Tim Wogan |
Pressure to form exotic ionic salts irresistible for nitrogen Researchers have used computer algorithms to calculate nitrogen structures at pressures far beyond the reach of current experimental determinations. Most notably, they calculated that it could form an ionic salt in which both the cations and anions were nitrogen. |
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley |
Natural Copy Cat While plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen, chemists are having a more difficult time finding an efficient method for converting carbon dioxide into useful fuels. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization. |
Chemistry World September 10, 2012 |
Carbon Wire a Double Helix An ultrathin carbon nanotube has been predicted by computational chemists to be stable up to 1000K. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Shortest Metal Bond Chemists in the US have made a quintuply-bonded dichromium complex with the shortest metal-metal bond ever isolated. |
Chemistry World June 28, 2013 Anthony King |
Titanium takes on Haber -- Bosch process The synthesis of ammonia under milder condition, using less energy and fewer resources, has moved a step closer. |
Chemistry World March 2011 |
Column: The crucible Chemistry cannot all be reduced to physics, argues Philip Ball |
Chemistry World January 24, 2010 Andy Extance |
Boron cluster forms unique ring system Clusters of nineteen boron atoms gather together in a ring structure unlike any other seen, with two planar -bonded aromatic systems nestled inside one another. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2012 James Mitchell Crow |
Nitrogen does diamond Nitrogen will form an unusual cage-like structure when subjected to high pressures, an international team of researchers has calculated. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Archetypal Lewis Acid Borane Turned Into a Base Chemists in the US and Germany have achieved the remarkable feat of transforming a borane, an archetypal electron-accepting Lewis acid, into an electron-donating Lewis base. |
Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards |
Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth. |
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 28, 2009 Manisha Lalloo |
Ultra-pure boron structure discovered Scientists have characterised a new form of elemental boron - a notoriously hard element to synthesise in a pure form - and found that ionic bonding helps hold the structure together. |
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Flattening carbon UK researchers have managed to synthesise a molecule with an almost planar four-coordinate carbon atom bonded to two lithium atoms and bulky organic ligands. |
Chemistry World May 21, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
H-bond partner-swapping seen in the flesh The dance moves that a water molecule makes as it flips hydrogen bonds from one partner to another have been captured by US researchers. |
Chemistry World March 21, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Forcing a Reaction US chemists have forced molecules to react by ripping their bonds apart with ultrasound. The scientists carefully stretched one targeted bond until it snapped, guiding the molecule's subsequent reaction into pathways forbidden by conventional chemistry. |
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 June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that. |