2+ hour, 47+ min ago  (94+ words) This week, we look back at how far click chemistry has come in the last 25 years and discuss the strange bonding behaviour of some of the largest elements on the periodic table with Mason Wakley and Frances Briggs. We would…...

11+ hour, 24+ min ago  (383+ words) Chemistry World Source: " Yuman Qin et al/Science/AAAS Oxidation reactions account for around 30% of the chemical industry's total output and the oxidative cleavage of the carbon'carbon double bond in alkenes is especially valuable. Ozonolysis is commonly used, but ozone's…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (304+ words) In Nitheeshan Guanantham's experience, stamina can become a stand-in for skill Practical labs are a core part of university chemistry curricula " but are they teaching what they should be? The moment it clicked for me wasn't dramatic. It was the…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (399+ words) Chemistry World Celebrating click chemistry's 25th birthday The field "is nowhere near mature " if not in its infancy, then perhaps enjoying a highly active childhood', says one of click chemistry's orignators 25 years ago click chemistry changed science. What happened next? Click…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (455+ words) Elliott thinks students would benefit from a stronger focus on polarisability in organic chemistry In recent work, we have explored the inductive effect more generally, and we find a complex scenario. 2 The inductive effect of a halogen in a neutral…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (414+ words) After 20 years of painstaking search, scientists finally have spectroscopic evidence that they have isolated an 80-atom boron analogue of buckminsterfullerene, the football-shaped C60 carbon cage. Their B80- spectrum is surprisingly simple and indicates a high symmetry complex with a considerable energy gap....

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (300+ words) A beautiful synthesis that measures up to an ideal What makes a good total synthesis? Despite all the metrics proposed over the years, my answer is usually some version of the famously subjective definition of obscenity by former US Supreme…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (138+ words) Source: Courtesy of David Leigh David Leigh will become president of the RSC for two years in 2028 University of Manchester supramolecular chemist David Leigh has been elected to serve as president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) from 2028 to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (360+ words) An international study spanning eight research groups has revealed that seemingly minor differences in experimental practice can lead to major variations in flow battery performance, exposing replicability problems in the field. As renewable power sources deliver energy intermittently, rechargeable energy…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (182+ words) Twenty-five years after its first description appeared in the pages of Angewandte Chemie, 1 click chemistry is now embedded throughout molecular sciences and engineering, but is nowhere near mature " if not in its infancy, then perhaps enjoying a highly active childhood....