Drugs to treat cancer are often very expensive to produce, resulting in high costs for the patients who need them. Thanks to pathbreaking research by UCLA chemists, led by organic chemistry professor Ohyun Kwon, the price ...
Biochemistry
Nov 22, 2023
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Organic N-alkyl amines are important chemical products and intermediate with wide applications in the fields of daily chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, surfactants, and life sciences. The C–N bonds formed by alkylating ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 24, 2023
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A big goal in chemistry is to find a simple way to produce amines from ammonia and unsaturated hydrocarbons. Catalytic addition to activate and transfer ammonia would not give rise to any waste. Hence, the process would be ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 24, 2023
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Fossil raw materials still dominate the chemical industry. But laboratories around the world are researching ways in which large-scale processes can avoid crude oil, natural gas and coal in the future. So-called platform ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 11, 2023
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Mosquitoes spread several diseases, among them malaria and dengue virus. In 2020, about 241 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, with a few more million cases occurring in 2021. Nearly half the world's population ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2023
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In a paper just published in ACS Catalysis, the Biocatalysis research group at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Synthesis presents a versatile method for the synthesis of primary, secondary, ...
Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2022
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"Dicamba drift"—the movement of the herbicide dicamba off crops through the atmosphere—can result in unintentional damage to neighboring plants. To prevent dicamba drift, other chemicals, typically amines, are mixed with ...
Environment
Oct 27, 2022
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An international team of scientists is using porous, sponge-like materials that can trap carbon dioxide in their cavities while allowing other gases such as nitrogen to pass through.
Materials Science
May 23, 2022
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a faster, less expensive technique for producing hindered amines—a class of chemicals used as building blocks in products ranging from pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals ...
Materials Science
May 4, 2022
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A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research team has discovered a way to produce a special class of molecule that could open the door for new drugs to treat currently untreatable diseases.
Biochemistry
Apr 15, 2022
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