Hindered photochromic benzo- and naphtho[1,3]oxazines can switch rapidly between colorless and colored forms under ultraviolet irradiation
Switching On And Off the Chemical Light
Biofuel Increases CO2 Emission
Production of biofuel from forests will increase greenhouse emissions according to study on the US West Coast
Joint NMR Research Facility
Agilent Technologies Inc. and the University of Technology, Sydney, establish a joint NMR research facility
Green and Efficient HMF Production
Production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from fructose with a yield of up to 87 %
New Rules for Reaction Dynamics
The Polanyi rules which describe the partitioning of energy in reaction barriers have been shown to neglect long-range steric forces
The B-Class Gets Some Class-A Help
Designing small-molecule ligands for class B GPCRs despite the lack of structural information for this receptor class
Recycling Catalysts by Precipitation
Simple way to recover and reuse chiral copper bis(oxazoline) complexes reported by French researchers
Synthesizing Rigid Bicycles
Polyprenylated polycyclic acylphloroglucines which have a range of activities can now be synthesized in just seven steps
Carbon-Chitosan Complex Removes Heavy Metal
Novel activated carbon-chitosan complex removes Pb2+ and Cd2+ from industrial wastewaters
Feeding Fruit Flies So They Fluoresce
How do you image a fruit fly? By feeding it a fluorescent nano-onion