Ideas for reducing the amount of single-use plastics in the lab

Towards a Greener Lab: Reducing Single-Use Plastics

Chika Kuroda – The Pioneering Female Chemist in Japan
The first female chemist to graduate from university in Japan worked in organic chemistry, specifically on plant dyes

Merck’s New Digital Reference Materials Platform for Analytical Testing
ChemisTwin™ can automatically analyze sample purity, compound identification and degradation through calibrated, algorithm-based digital references

Plants as Indicators for a Banned Pesticide
Chemical-induced dimerization (CID) systems used for the creation of living biosensors

Oxadiazole‐Decorated Azobenzene Photoswitches
Synthesis of novel functionalized azobenzenes using amino-functionalized heterocyclic intermediates

Total Syntheses of Ganocin A and Cochlearol B
Natural products from fungi with interesting biological activities

1,8-Naphthyridine-Based Double Azahelicenes
One-pot procedure via nucleophilic fluorine substitutions and palladium-catalyzed ring-closing reactions

A Reversible Water-Based Electrostatic Adhesive
New class of adhesive forms electrostatic bonds; can be detached in highly acidic or alkaline solutions

Gold-Mediated Radioiodination of Arenes
Carboxylic acids used as precursors in decarboxylative transformations

High-Rate NH3 Electrosynthesis via NOx Reduction
Copper-activated cobalt foam electrode for highly efficient ammonia synthesis