Highlights
Engineering: Hydrogen Hubs Arise in the United States
26 November 2024Public funding brings producers and users of clean hydrogen together to boost adoption of the gas.
C&EN: Simple method converts fluorspar into fluorochemicals
16 November 2024Generating common fluorinating agents directly from the mineral avoids the dangers of hydrogen fluoride.
Science: Coming of Age
10 October 2024Twenty years after the ballyhooed discovery of graphene, the atom-thin carbon sheets are finding their footing.
C&EN: Recycling DNA origami nanostructures
02 October 2024New methods could drive down costs and waste in burgeoning applications.
Nature Biotechnology: Enzymes boost ‘rock weathering’ to trap CO2 in soil
16 September 2024Spreading powdered basalt on farmland may help to achieve key climate goals.
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Category Archives: Highlights
C&EN: A shocking way to produce hydrogen from plastic waste
Flash Joule heating converts polymers into low-cost hydrogen and graphene.
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C&EN: Catalyst persuades alcohols to offer a helping hand for C-H activation
Tailored ligand on palladium catalyst uses hydrogen bonding to orchestrate reaction.
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Nature Biotechnology: ‘Clicked’ drugs: researchers prove the remarkable chemistry in humans
Bioorthogonal click chemistry is being used in patients to help target cancer medicines and diagnostic imaging agents.
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C&EN: Medicinal chemistry methods miniaturized for high-throughput experimentation
Researchers redesign 4 workhorse reactions to run in microliter droplets.
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C&EN: Diberyllocene is a Be–Be king
First solid compound to contain a beryllium-beryllium bond could unlock unusual chemistry.
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C&EN: Protein enables better lanthanide separations
A newly discovered form of lanmodulin offers a more efficient way to separate rare earth elements.
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Nature: Skeleton Crew
An explosion of methods to insert, delete or swap single atoms in the cores of molecules could accelerate drug discovery.
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C&EN’s Talented 12: Raúl Hernández Sánchez
This supramolecular chemist uses molecular assemblies to purify water and develop clean energy catalysts.
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C&EN’s Talented 12: Charlotte Vogt
This spectroscopist probes catalysts to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy.
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C&EN: Chemists think outside the box to craft tricky cubanes
Using cubanes in place of benzene rings could help fine-tune the properties of drug candidates.
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