Atom-swapping blueprint could streamline synthesis of pharmaceutical building blocks

Researchers from NUS have pioneered a photocatalytic atom-swapping transformation that converts oxetanes into a variety of four-membered saturated cyclic molecules, which are key scaffolds in ...
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Using alcohol dehydrogenases for the clean synthesis of amides and thioesters

Researchers at the Biocatalysis group led by Dr Francesco Mutti at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of Amsterdam) have ...
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Chemists develop “Dump-and-Stir” technique for fast and safe carborane synthesis

The University of Osaka scientists have developed a safe, efficient “dump-and-stir” method to introduce ortho-carborane into ...
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Synthesis of a new compound with excellent intrinsic magnetic properties using smaller amounts of rare earth elements

1. NIMS has successfully synthesized a new SmFe-based magnetic compound, SmFe 8.8 N 1.1, which possesses superior intrinsic magnetic properties when compared to those of NdFeB compound used in ...