A team of researchers at Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, has developed an automated flow chemistry system that is capable of carrying out 1500 reactions over a 24-hour period. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
A Rice University laboratory that specializes in synthesizing reagents and intermediate molecules for the design and manufacture of drugs and other fine chemicals has delivered on a promise to generalize the synthesis of ...
Materials Science
Jul 12, 2017
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Today, chemists synthesize cyclopropanes using pure E or Z alkenes as starting materials and usually dangerous, unstable reagents such as diazomethane or iodomethylzinc iodide.
Materials Science
Dec 20, 2016
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A molecule developed and synthesized at Ca' Foscari University of Venice has been made available to laboratories all over the world. Named after the Ca' Foscari researchers who discovered it, the "Perosa-Selva-Noè vinylation ...
Materials Science
Jun 8, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at MIT has found a way to modify proteins using palladium reagents, allowing for the possible creation of a host of therapeutic drugs. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the ...
Chemists working in a variety of industries and fields typically go through a laborious process to measure and mix reagents for each reaction they perform. And many of the common reagents they use sit for months or years ...
Materials Science
Aug 12, 2015
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A team of University of Rhode Island engineers led by Professor Mohammad Faghri has created a new paper-based platform for conducting a wide range of complex medical diagnostics. The key development was the invention of fluid ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 4, 2015
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The addition of functional groups to certain unsaturated hydrocarbons, known as alkenes, is a crucial stage in the synthesis of various compounds, including many plastics. For these functionalization reactions to occur a ...
Materials Science
Sep 25, 2013
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In future, it will be much easier to produce some active pharmaceutical substances and chemical compounds than was the case to date. An international team working with chemists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung ...
Materials Science
Sep 13, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Two teams working independently of each other have developed very similar methods for creating silver nanoparticles that appear impervious to rust. One of the teams was from the U.S. and published their results ...
