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Highlights in Chemical Science

Chemical science news from across RSC Publishing.



Issue 8


Instant Insight

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Instant insight: The organic chemist's toolbox

17 July 2009

Karl Anker Jørgensen and Søren Bertelsen from Aarhus University, Denmark, talk about impressive achievements in organocatalysis


Interview

Morris Robins

Interview: Understanding the fundamentals

15 July 2009

Morris Robins talks to Kathleen Too about turning crystalline sugars black, discovering Epivir and Cladribine and his new career in farming


Research Highlights

Amino acids

Tag and modify proteins

02 July 2009

A Nobel Prize-winning reaction for making carbon-carbon double bonds can be applied to proteins


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Tiny pushes from a distance

06 July 2009

A microelectrode can remotely control the movement of a nanomotor


DNA box

DNA-in-the-box

29 June 2009

Scientists have made a container from DNA that could deliver drugs


isoprene structure on rainforest background

Tropic wonder

25 June 2009

The solution to keeping the atmosphere clean could lie deep in the heart of the rainforest


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Greener nylon with nanosponges

20 July 2009

An immobilised enzyme could change the face of nylon production


deuterated amino acid

The achiral key to life

10 July 2009

High deuterium levels found in meteorites could have been responsible for life on Earth


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Where the sun does most damage

07 July 2009

Skin cancer's location on the body depends on the body's distance from the equator


Essential Elements

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Record impact factors

RSC Publishing celebrates record breaking 2008 impact factor results


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