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Chemistry World May 26, 2015 Victoria Richards |
Crystalline sponge method strikes again Scientists from Japan report that their revolutionary crystallographic technique has determined the stereochemistries of molecules with axial and planar chiralities, where classical methods had failed. |
Chemistry World June 24, 2015 Victoria Richards |
Confronting the crystalline sponge A research group in the US has successfully simplified a crystallographic technique that scientists had struggled to get to grips with. |
Chemistry World May 20, 2014 Andy Extance |
Mechanism study seeks to clear 'crystalline flask' cloud The Japanese chemists behind a controversial x-ray crystallography method have used it to study a poorly-understood reaction mechanism for the first time. |
Chemistry World November 14, 2014 Laura Fisher |
Will it crystallize? Scientists have developed a machine learning approach to predict whether a small organic molecule will be able to crystallize. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2011 Fiona McKenzie |
Poking Aspirin with a Sharp Stick Scientists have found a way to go one better than x-ray crystallography to examine pharmaceutical crystals at an even deeper level. |
Chemistry World November 13, 2015 Kira Welter |
First permanently porous liquid created Liquids with permanent porosity were created by combining a functionalized organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent |
Chemistry World November 4, 2010 Mike Brown |
World's smallest chromatography column Single metal-organic framework crystals can be used to separate mixtures of dyes just like a miniature chromatography column, say scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World September 6, 2013 Melissae Fellet |
Unravelling stereochemistry via mass spectrometry Researchers have used mass spectrometry to determine the stereochemistry of a prototypical chiral molecule, CHBrClF. |
Chemistry World June 2010 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball welcomes the age of automated chemical crystallography |
Chemistry World July 29, 2014 Derek Lowe |
The crystal ball that can tell lies X-ray crystallography has long had a sort of halo around it as the 'ground truth' of molecular structure, so many chemists are surprised to learn how rife with error it can be. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Chemists create a molecular ship in a bottle Chemists have designed a new kind of three-dimensional molecular cage that is held together by a remarkably high number of hydrogen bonds. |
Chemistry World June 26, 2009 James Urquhart |
White phosphorus tamed White phosphorous, a highly reactive and potentially toxic form of the element, can be stabilized in air indefinitely when imprisoned inside a self-assembling molecular cage. |
Chemistry World February 8, 2006 Jon Evans |
To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space. |
Chemistry World September 24, 2014 Hayley Simon |
Water provides new angle on single molecule imaging Small variations in a molecule's conformation can have a large effect on chemical reactivity. Being able to identify these differences is one of the aims of high resolution spectroscopy. |
Chemistry World August 17, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
A MOF you can scoff Chemists have accidentally discovered a new type of metal organic framework, or MOF, which is made from edible components. |
Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Sarah Farley |
Capturing Compounds in Cages for Chemical Control Scientists from the UK have used a molecular capsule to control the reactivity of an organic compound. |
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Toolbox Natalie Strynadka wants to design a better antibiotic. Her strategy: learn about the molecules bacteria use to invade cells. Her tool: structural biology. |
Chemistry World November 23, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Unfolding Peptide Watched in Real Time Researchers have observed a peptide molecule changing shape in real time. The ultrafast process was monitored using a technique called transient two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy. |
Chemistry World May 4, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Nanomachinery gets a spring in its step Molecular springs that always twist the same way are the latest addition to the nanomachinery toolbox. |
Chemistry World August 1, 2010 Mike Brown |
Snapshots of mystery molecular structures Researchers have used atomic force microscopy to produce clear molecular images that can help determine the correct atomic structure of unknown organic molecules. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Tools of the trade Organic synthesis has always depended on instrumental analysis, even when the instruments were a thermometer for distillations and a melting point stage for crystals. |
Chemistry World April 28, 2014 Hamish Crawford |
Crystal structures unpacked A researcher in the UK has shed new light on which interactions are important in the packing of crystal structures. |
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley |
Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes. |
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2014 |
X marks the structure From single crystals to powders and even proteins, there's a diffractometer for every structure. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2013 Kirsty Muirhead |
An end to chasing molecules that were never there? Ariel Sarotti from the Rosario National University, Argentina, has developed a new, computationally inexpensive method combining calculated and experimental 13C NMR data to flag up incorrect structures. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? |
Chemistry World March 15, 2010 Matt Wilkinson |
An agile future Nick Roelofs, president of Agilent Technology's life sciences group, discusses how the company is planning to ride the waves of the economic recovery. |
Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2008 Michael Gross |
Light Drives Plastic Motor Chemists in Japan have built a rotary motor driven purely by light shining onto a polymer film. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
'Chemical soldering' heralds single molecule electronics Scientists in Japan and Switzerland have demonstrated how to wire up single molecules with conductive nanowires. |
Wired Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. |
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent Indian chemists have discovered a highly elastic but crystalline material made from caffeine. The crystals maintain their elasticity down to -100 C. |
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 February 18, 2011 Carol Stanier |
Speed dating for pharmaceuticals A simple analysis of hydrogen bond strengths finds the best crystallisation partners for drugs, say UK scientists. |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Revolution Over the years, scientists and artists have used an assortment of techniques to showcase molecular structure. |
Chemistry World June 13, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Exploding molecule provides 3D bond images Researchers from the US and Germany have demonstrated a new way to obtain accurate three-dimensional images of molecules, with precise measurements of the geometry of the molecule's chemical bonds. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Propeller-shaped molecules give 2D polymers lift-off Crystal engineers have finally succeeded in achieving a goal that has eluded chemists for decades by unambiguously synthesizing two-dimensional polymer crystals, confirmed by single-crystal x-ray diffraction. |
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans |
Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels. |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 |
Molecules positioned on silicon Dubbed multi-step feedback control lithography, this new fabrication process could eventually be used to construct prototype molecular electronic devices for future technologies in areas like consumer electronics and biomedical diagnostics. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2013 Philip Ball |
Crystallography 101 What is perhaps most striking about x-ray crystallography is that in 100 years of existence its significance has only increased. |
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 July 3, 2014 Tami Spector |
Of atoms and aesthetics Molecular aesthetics means many things to a few people. For some it means tangible aspects of compounds; for others yet, the ways that chemists represent molecules. |
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 May 4, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Molecular shuttle slides into the solid state Scientists in Canada have for the first time incorporated a 'molecular shuttle' into a metal -- organic framework, raising the possibility of future solid-state nanotechnologies based on interlocking molecules. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2009 |
Bolt-on MOF catalysts Chemists in the US have shown that a class of hugely porous materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can have catalytic functions bolted onto the structure after it has been constructed to produce efficient catalysts that can be easily recovered and cycled many times. |
Chemistry World May 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Molecular biology, physics, materials science, physiology, even pure mathematics is a neighbor, and these neighbors are usually reached through a zone of interdisciplinary stuff that's rather hard to define. So who counts as a chemist? |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between. |