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Chemistry World
October 12, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Chemistry Nobel laureate Richard Heck dies Richard Heck, the organic chemist who shared the 2010 chemistry Nobel prize with for developing palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions, has died aged 84.   |
Chemistry World
September 2009 |
Living the Nobel life In Lindau, Germany, groups of Nobel prize winners are invited to meet with a new generation of young scientists. This year was the chemists' turn and the theme of this year's event was renewable energy and climate change |
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
March 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry When we devised this series to run through the International Year of Chemistry, there was some concern that everyone would choose the same hero. How wrong we were. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2015 |
Behind closed doors: How to win the Nobel prize Few know the process by which the winner or winners are chosen. We go behind closed doors to find out how the Nobel committee make their selection. |
Chemistry World
November 2011
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Nobels and Nobility The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Daniel Shechtman at Technion in Haifa, Israel, for the discovery of quasicrystals. |
Chemistry World
November 2009
Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2013
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Nobel double whammy for chemistry The chemistry prize was awarded to three US chemists for 'the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems'. The peace prize went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize What makes the Nobel Prize so coveted? Stephen Greyser and Mats Urde discuss the first field-based study exploring the prize from a brand and reputation perspective. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2014 |
Live blog: Single molecule spectroscopy wins chemistry Nobel prize The bloggers offer their comments on the developing Nobel Prize story and winners for 2014. |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2014
Simon Cotton |
The last alchemist in Paris This excellent book will provide an entertaining read to all chemists and is also just the kind of text to place in the hands of school students. |
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
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
January 29, 2013
Gordon Woods |
Nobel near miss The Periodic Table and a Missed Nobel Prize by Ulf Lagerkvist and edited by Erling Norrby, is aimed at the general science reader interested in the history of the development of scientific thought. There are biographies of many European scientists. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Nobel winners call for energy R&D funding Thirty-four Nobel Prize winners are urging US President Obama to make good on his pledge to provide increased, stable funding for energy research and development. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2012
Laura Howes |
Nobel Prize Amount Cut Recently, returns on the capital of the foundation have fallen short of the amount needed to support the prizes. |
Chemistry World
November 2, 2015
Philip Robinson |
A Nobel purpose The Nobel categories are fields that support Nobel's humanitarian goals, and looking at this year's awards, there is a notable humanitarian, even humanist, flavor. |
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
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. |
