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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 February 27, 2009 Hayley Birch	More data from mixtures via NMR Finnish scientists have developed a new technique for separating out the NMR spectra of compounds in a mixture.
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 May 17, 2007 Michael Gross	Further Integration of Micro Fluidics and Mass Spec Chemists in Germany have created a glass microchip that combines microfluidic channels with a nanospray emitter for electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.
Chemistry World October 3, 2006 Michael Gross	Imaging for the Masses Two US research groups have made progress in the application of mass spectrometry for imaging.
Chemistry World March 7, 2011 Russell Johnson	Breathe out for personalised medicine A method to analyse drug levels in the body could allow people with epilepsy to avoid weeks of blood tests, claim scientists from Switzerland.
Chemistry World July 24, 2013	Spectrometry for the masses A mass spectrometer ionizes chemical compounds to generate charged molecules or molecular fragments and allows the measurement of the molecular mass of a sample. Mass spectrometry continues to move forward, shaping new scientific fields in the process.
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 Emma Stoye	Super sensitive test hones in on performance enhancing drugs A new technique that increases the sensitivity of mass spectrometry could make it harder for athletes to cheat, by identifying minute traces of banned drug metabolites in urine that would otherwise go undetected.
Chemistry World March 4, 2014 Emma Stoye	Mass spec backpack for chemical analysis on the go The latest gadget to come out of the labs of Purdue University in the US may look like the fictional 'proton pack' from Ghostbusters, but it's actually a portable mass spectrometer that can be carried around on the user's back.
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Chemistry World July 22, 2008	Weighing Molecules with Nanotubes US scientists have made a nanoscale mass sensor which can weigh molecules with atomic precision.
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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 November 13, 2008 Hayley Birch	Reactions Studied by Stop Motion Japanese and Israeli scientists have developed a technique that can track whole-molecule changes that occur during extremely rapid reactions.
Chemistry World June 18, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Chemical speed-dating even faster Researchers in the US have adapted a DNA amplification technique to develop a simpler way to rapidly screen chemical reactions.
Chemistry World June 23, 2009 James Urquhart	Smallest acid droplet formed Scientists in Germany have observed a single molecule of HCl dissociating into its component ions in water - and have discovered that just four water molecules are needed for complete dissociation of the acid.
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jon Evans	World's smallest ice cube created Ice crystals must contain at least 275 water molecules, say German chemists. This size limit has implications for any process that involves ice particles, from cloud formation to making the perfect gin and tonic.
Chemistry World December 5, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Chemical reactions in hot water Chinese and Japanese chemists have highlighted hot water's ability to promote unexpected reactions without any other reagents or catalysts. The work should expand our understanding of how to harness the physicochemical properties of water to potentially replace more complex reagents and catalysts.
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Chemistry World February 15, 2010 Hayley Birch	Decades-old meteorite gets holistic treatment A new technique used to analyse samples from a meteorite that hit Australia more than 40 years ago could help scientists understand more about the chemical complexity of the early solar system.
Chemistry World May 11, 2007 Michael Gross	The Atmosphere on Titan's Moon Using spectroscopic measurements made during flybys of the Cassini craft, researchers in the U.S. can now present first insights into the reactions that lead from methane and nitrogen to the formation of tholins, which are believed to make up the orange fog that veils Titan's surface.
Chemistry World January 31, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Sharing Out the Lab Measurement Billions Pharmaceutical measurement company Agilent Technologies has updated over 40% of its high pressure liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry ranges, and introduced software that can be used on competitor's machines.
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Chemistry World July 14, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Multicomponent reactions step up a gear Dutch chemists have taken multicomponent reactions to the next level, combining a total of eight different starting materials in a single flask, bringing together three different multicomponent reactions and making nine new bonds in a single step.
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe	Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve.
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Chemistry World January 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Water Surprise for Atmospheric Scientists Lone water molecules can catalyze reactions between atmospheric gases, scientists have confirmed, throwing a wrench in the works of supposedly simple atmospheric chemistry.
Chemistry World October 24, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Mass Spec Explodes A new technique developed by US researchers could pave the way for faster analysis of biological samples by first vaporising them using laser light.
Chemistry World July 16, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Strange vibrations Researchers in Taiwan have shown that in a relatively simple molecular system the induced vibrations can inhibit the breaking of the bond and slow the reaction down.
Chemistry World March 8, 2009 Nina Notman	Polymer Crossroads Act as Tiny Reactors Scientists in the US have taken inspiration from a Dutch painter to create ultrasmall chemical reactors at the junctions of overlapping polymer nanofibres
Chemistry World April 7, 2009 James Urquhart	Mass spec exposes seaweed defences The activity of 28 unique anti-fungal chemicals on the surface of a single species of seaweed has been deciphered for the first time with the help of high tech mass spectrometry imaging.
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 September 20, 2007 Lewis Brindley	New Catalyst Rings the Changes Organic chemists in the US have developed a method to control the stereochemistry of a useful intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction.
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 April 10, 2008 Mark Peplow	'Pot-in-a-Pot' Technique Makes Impossible Cascade Reactions Easy A simple technique that nests a series of reaction vessels could help chemists avoid the tedium and expense of purifying organic compounds after each step of a long synthesis.
Chemistry World February 19, 2013 Ian Farrell	Analyzing bacterial metabolites A mass-spectrometry technique that can characterize and spatially resolve the metabolites produced by bacteria could lead to a better understanding of how different microbes interact with each other, and how their chemistry could be harnessed industrially.
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.
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Chemistry World April 16, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Mass spec pinpoints flu virus types Researchers in Australia have shown that exquisitely accurate mass spectrometry can be used to distinguish between different sub-types of the influenza virus
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Philip Ball	Ultra-bright x-rays film molecular reaction A team working at the Stanford Linear Collider in California claims to have made 'the first molecular movie' using ultra-fast x-ray scattering from molecules as they undergo a chemical reaction.
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 September 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Champagne's aromatic chemistry The bubbles that fountain from a glass of champagne ferry a complex array of flavour molecules into the air above the glass, lifting the aroma towards you as you take a sip - and the molecular profile of this aerosol blend is very different to that of the bulk liquid, say European scientists.