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Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.
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Chemists join forces to boost reproducibility in catalysis research
1+ mon, 4+ hour ago (658+ words) Collective effort is key to avoiding reproducibility struggles that have plagued many scientific fields Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. In January, 50 chemists held a 3-day workshop in an airport hotel in Denver. The group was comprised…...
Why a human expert must be in the loop for AI to boost chemistry
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (205+ words) Hiding a machine’s reasoning inside a closed box won’t help our science move forward by Scott Reed, special to C&EN Essays from our readers on issues that impact the scientific community The AI Chemist is a column covering what…...
The covalent drug arsenal gets a new warhead
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (405+ words) A mild, modular approach to adding bicyclobutanes could bring more selectivity to these therapies A new platform that adds bicyclobutanes to amines could be used to create covalent drugs that have fewer side effects (Science 2026, DOI: 10.1126/science.adx7219). "We realized that…...
Reaction rounds up atoms into unusual cyclic compounds
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (381+ words) Chiral aromatic heterocycles could be novel motifs in drug candidates Now chemists at the University of California, Davis, led by Jared T. Shaw and Dean J. Tantillo report a new way to cyclize sulfonimidamides to make rare five-membered heterocycles that are both…...
Editorial: AI needs chemistry for better or worse
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (504+ words) Fabricating the chips that make artificial intelligence possible provides opportunities for chemists and society Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. Three companies tend to get top billing when pundits talk about the physical underpinning of…...
Chemists get twice the reactivity from a single substitution handle
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (372+ words) New reaction forms disubstituted products, thanks to a styrene radical cation intermediate The simplest explanation was that the reaction was a substitution reaction going through a halonium intermediate. “But none of those were working on a computational surface,” Hirschi says....
Modular syntheses: Putting function first
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1536+ words) New synthetic approaches are helping chemists sculpt their molecules into new shapes and forms by Carrie Arnold, special to C&EN Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. Chemist Christian Schafmeister never passes up a chance to reference…...
Self-driving labs are changing how chemists work
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1770+ words) A slew of start-ups and academic labs are leaning on AI agents and bots, rather than humans, to speed up their chemistry Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. Atinary has raised at least $10 million in outside investment…...
Here are 6 turning points that defined US chemistry.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1381+ words) 6 pivotal moments in 250 years of US chemistry These crucial turning points helped make the country a global chemical leader by Elizabeth Quill, special to C&EN Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. This new instrumentation wasn’t exclusively…...