The gap between fundamental academic research & applied industrial research can be bridged by engaging in well-defined collaborative academia–industry projects & by fostering better communication, suggest
@DrLCsquare
&
@danithechemist
(Image:
@ChemScrapes
)
To celebrate the
#IYPT2019
, each day we'll post an In Your Element essay from the collection we've published over the last 10 years or so (all are free to read). No prizes for guessing where we begin:
Nucleophilic aromatic substitutions have long been thought to occur primarily via stepwise mechanisms, but it has now been shown that such reactions typically proceed through concerted processes (freeview link)
2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (
#IYPT
or
#IYPT2019
if you prefer). We have loads of great periodic table-related stuff in our Jan 2019 issue - it's all here:
#periodictable150
Today we're getting suitable supplies together from our labs to donate local hospitals. Labs from departments across
@UniOfYork
are bringing donations to Chemistry Stores where they will be collected this afternoon.
So,
@AlexFGoldberg
and
@Chemjobber
submitted another manuscript to us. We thought we'd post it to the blog as a little fun treat for the holiday season...
PERSPECTIVE: Pseudo-natural products — combining fragments derived from different natural products — exhibit bioactivities not found in natural products ($)
Our May issue went live last week, with this great cover from
@JoRichers
! Cover paper is from Dietzek-Ivanšić, Rau and co-workers ( ($)); the rest of the issue can be found here:
In our
#10YearsOfNatChem
anniversary issue, 58 scientists tell us how chemistry will develop in the years to come. Why don't you join in and tell us what you think the future of chemistry holds (use the hashtag
#ChartingChemistry
) (free-to-read)
Our September issue is live, with a fantastic cover highlighting the work of
@GloriusGroup
about the controlled growth of N-heterocyclic carbenes on a silicon substrate. Find the issue here:
Our Jan 2019 issue is a special one to celebrate 2019 being the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (
#IYPT
or
#IYPT2019
); featuring super-heavy elements, fantasy elements, ephemeral elements & heavy questions:
#periodictable150
In his latest Thesis column,
@brucecgibb
reminds us that buffers are not necessarily innocent bystanders and that they can bind to biomacromolecules too... (freeview link)
News & Views: A robust zirconium complex with spectacular photophysical properties has been synthesized that could inspire the design of fundamentally new types of photoactive coordination compounds ($)
Congrats to
@HLAGroupOx
! As voted by Twitter poll, here is
@NatureChemistry
's cover of the year for 2020! (Although we think the bismuth cover line might have helped swing it... 😆)
There are many different versions of the periodic table, but one among them reigns supreme.
@MichelleFrancl
ponders on why chemists put elements in boxes. (We're dragging content out of our archive for
#IYPT2019
#IYPT
) (freeview link)
Despite five decades of research, the alkaloid (+)-brevianamide A remained an elusive target for chemical synthesis. Now, the total synthesis has been achieved in seven steps and 7.2% overall yield to give 750 mg of the target compound ($)
The June issue is now live! There's late-stage C–H methylation, highly vibrationally excited NO, genetic encoding of non-canonical amino acids, synthesis of precious-metal single-site catalysts, terpene total synthesis and much more!
A C₆₄ nanographene comprising a planar core decorated with four terphenyl–imide arms at its periphery has been shown to assemble with coronene to form multilayer stacks ($)
'Despite the regular occurrence of high-profile accidents leading to serious injuries or deaths among lab personnel, the state of academic lab safety research has languished.' - A review and critique of academic lab safety research (free to read)
Q&A:
@AthinaAnastasa1
from ETH Zürich talks to
@NatureChemistry
about her career, her research in polymer chemistry and the challenges she dealt with in her academic pathway ($)
Our June issue is live! It's all here:
On the cover is the Article from
@TilleyLab
,
@LaurentSevery
and co-workers on immobilizing molecular catalysts on electrode surfaces using host–guest interactions. Cover image courtesy of
@rene_wick
.
Thomas Poulsen (
@ThomasBPoulsen
) and his daughter Filucca share a very personal story about how a curious chemical structure will forever be connected with a cancer diagnosis in their family (free-view link)
#BlindChickenMolecule
The impact of biocatalysis on synthetic chemistry in the next decade is limited only by the creativity of chemists in co-opting nature’s platforms for catalysis, and the willingness to put enzymes in our flasks says
@NarayanLab
#ChartingChemistry
2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (
#IYPT
or
#IYPT2019
if you prefer). We have loads of great periodic table-related stuff in our Jan 2019 issue - it's all here:
#periodictable150
Isolation of a triplet benzene dianion in which the ground state shows Baird aromaticity according to single-crystal X-ray diffraction data and NICS calculations ($)
News & Views by Elaine O'Reilly in our March issue: A primitive computationally designed enzyme has been remodelled into an efficient enantioselective catalyst for the Morita–Baylis–Hillman reaction ($)