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Chemistry World February 27, 2014 |
Organic matter: Ringing the changes Among the joys of running a new process in the plant (and let me be clear, it is a joy) is that, in the plant, chemistry really matters. |
Chemistry World May 26, 2015 |
Catching the runaways I think each cohort of industrial chemists has a runaway industrial reaction that defines their generation. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2015 |
Foaming at the reactor mouth Nothing stops a plant process faster than the dread words 'we have a stuck bottom valve'. |
Chemistry World August 28, 2014 |
Trekking across chemical frontiers Thinking about getting molecules to where they need to go is a new concept for the novice process chemist, but is familiar to chemical engineers as mass transfer. |
Chemistry World August 27, 2015 |
Scrubbing up A scrubber in a chemical lab keeps volatile compounds from moving into the rest of the laboratory, protecting chemists from toxic compounds, foul smells and irritated co-workers. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2014 Phillip Broadwith |
How good do you want it? In a chemical manufacturing environment, the most important questions for process chemists are qualitative: how shall we make this molecule? How can we do it safely? |
Chemistry World November 2007 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline Chemists are finally going with the flow. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Under pressure Someone interviewing for a synthetic chemistry position had better know his or her organic chemistry. It's fair to ask questions that will make sure of that. But does a candidate need to know the curly-arrow details of reactions that they'll never run? |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Chemistry World September 2, 2011 Tegan Thomas |
Offsetting the Cost of a Green Solvent Scientists have conducted a study to show how waste carbon dioxide can become an exploitable resource. |
Chemistry World February 20, 2015 |
Enthralled by evaporation The separating funnel might be the most fun of all laboratory glassware. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2013 Manisha Lalloo |
NMR thermometer takes reactor's temperature Scientists in the US have used NMR to create temperature maps of reactions taking place inside catalytic reactors. Their technique opens the door to an easy, non-invasive way to discover hot and cold 'spots' inside reactors. |
BusinessWeek March 23, 2011 Peter Coy |
Would the New Reactor Designs Have Made a Difference? The radiation release from the 1970s-era Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant was caused by one of the strongest earthquakes on record, followed by a giant tsunami. New plant designs may have been able to withstand the twin blows. |
Chemistry World February 2008 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Cast a skeptical eye over new ideas in chemistry. |
Chemistry World January 2009 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Sustainable connection The interface between chemistry and engineering is more important than ever. |
Chemistry World November 25, 2014 James Urquhart |
Nanomolar chemistry enables 1500 experiments in a single day Chemists have conducted over 1500 chemistry experiments in under a day thanks to a miniaturized, high throughput automation platform they developed for identifying how synthetic molecules react under various conditions. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 John Nicholson |
The matter factory: a history of the chemistry laboratory There has been no comprehensive history of the chemistry laboratory, an omission put right in The matter factory by the distinguished historian, Peter Morris. |
Chemistry World October 2007 Bernard Bulkin |
Can Chemistry Save the Planet? If we are to scale back our greenhouse gas emissions without society juddering to a halt, 21st century transport will need 21st century fuels. And of all the sciences, it is chemistry that is best placed to deliver them. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe reminisces about lost laboratory techniques and wonders which will be next to go |
Chemistry World January 2, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Fear of the unknown My mental file drawer labelled 'Terrible Reagents I Have Known' is even larger than the one called 'Lunatics I Have Worked With and their Life-Threatening Ideas'. We organic chemists really do work with some terrible chemicals, and it's up to us to keep them from causing havoc. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2011 Sarah Corcoran |
Unclogging the problems of flow chemistry US scientists have found a way to stop solid byproducts clogging channels in continuous flow reactors, a problem that has hampered their progress for use in manufacturing pharmaceuticals. |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Eliza Strickland |
24 Hours at Fukushima A blow-by-blow account of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Unique Teaching Laboratory Goes Online A remote-controlled chemical laboratory that can be operated through the internet was unveiled recently. The system allows chemical engineering students anywhere in the world to operate a real-life laboratory without costly equipment. |
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 October 2011 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline Research chemistry has hazards, some of them potentially fatal, and attention to safety is an essential part of working in the field. The hard part comes when you try to figure out what sort of 'attention to safety' is most helpful. |
Reactive Reports Issue 66 David Bradley |
Nuclear Chemist's Love of the Web Benefits Chemists Everywhere Mitch Andre Garcia uses the internet to help the chemistry community. His latest web creation is a ranking tool which allows users to submit research papers of interest and for others to vote on their worthiness or otherwise. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2011 Joanne Thomson |
Hot Chemistry Temperature played a crucial role in David MacMillan's decision to study chemistry. |
Chemistry World March 2006 |
The Last Retort: Still Baffled by H2O A laboratory in the U.S. has a mission to investigate the chemistry and physics of pure water more deeply than anyone has done before, with the help of a supercomputer called Thunder. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2015 Mark Peplow |
Getting to know you The Royal Society of Chemistry has been working on the Public attitudes to chemistry study with leading social research company TNS BMRB. |
Chemistry World November 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic Good laboratory techniques are key skills for a chemistry graduate. All chemists need an appropriate level and range of practical skills. |
Chemistry World February 26, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
Dangerous delivery problems dog chemical transport in China A lethal accident caused by the leak of a laboratory reagent being delivered by untrained couriers in an inappropriate vehicle has once again highlighted the difficulty of transporting small quantities of chemicals in China. |
Chemistry World November 25, 2014 Hugh Cowley |
Benchtop NMR gives feedback in flow The platform performs algorithm driven organic synthesis using real-time feedback from in-line flow NMR spectroscopy |
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010 Jonathan Katz |
Toxic Avengers Manufacturers discover that greener and smaller chemical inventories can save money. Reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, introduced in July by Representatives Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bobby Rush, D-Ill., are aimed primarily at the chemical content of products. |
Chemistry World December 2007 Henry Nicholls |
The Chemistry Set Generation Thinking about buying a chemistry set for someone this Christmas? A nostalgic look at an inspirational toy that could be on the verge of a comeback |
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Derek Lowe |
A precision instrument? How much do medicinal chemists and their biology colleagues really trust each other's data? In the end, they have to, because drug discovery is a team sport. |
Chemistry World January 14, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Ignorance is no defense Chemists can be a danger to themselves and others if they don't know enough about the compounds they're working with. |
Chemistry World November 2007 |
Book Reviews A review of books on: good clinical & laboratory practices, green chemistry, environmental chemistry, organic reactions in water, universal asymmetry, and molecular models for fluids. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2006 John S. McClenahen |
Air Products Plans New Korean Plant Allentown, Pa.-based Air Products & Chemicals Inc. is constructing a new nitrogen trifluoride plant in Ulsan, South Korea, to support Asian semiconductor and liquid crystal display markets. |
Chemistry World September 9, 2011 James Mitchell Crow |
High-throughput catalyst screening for the masses Using nothing more than the standard chemistry lab equipment, researchers in the US have successfully turned the discovery of new catalytic reactions into a high-throughput process. |
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 May 2008 Dylan Stiles |
Bench Monkey It takes at least five years before an average chemistry student can form a hypothesis and test it in a laboratory. Even the most gifted stars of the field don't emerge until their mid-twenties. |
Chemistry World June 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline The author, a medicinal chemist working on preclinical drug discovery, takes a look at the differences between chemists and biologists working on the same team. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 |
What is chemistry? This book is designed to tell the average person all about chemistry, and in a way they can understand. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Peter Coy |
The Prospect for Safe Nuclear Power Fukushima has cast a pall over the industry, just as new designs are showing promise of making reactors far safer. Will fear bring progress to a halt -- or stimulate demand for smarter solutions? |
Chemistry World October 2007 Derek Lowe |
In the Pipeline One of the biggest areas of chemical research these days is in catalytic processes. It's one of the places we can really improve our processes, especially when you count the waste stream (as you should) as part of the total energy bill. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Flow Reactors Enter the Rapids Continuous flow chemistry's promise to shake up synthesis gathered momentum this month, with the first Uniqsis Flow Chemistry Symposium. |