Tag Archives: acids

Unnatural chemicals

Posted by Robert Slinn on July 8, 2020 Comments Off

‘Unnatural’ chemical allows Salk researchers to watch protein action in brain cells – Researchers at the Salk Institute have been able to genetically incorporate "unnatural" amino acids, such as those emitting green fluorescence, into neural stem cells, which then differentiate …

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Making fluorine reactions stick

Posted by David Bradley on May 10, 2020 Comments Off

Fluorine in organic chemistry is an important topic across the synthetic pharmaceutical, agrochemical and materials areas because switching out hydrogen atoms selectivity for this element allows chemists to tune the reactivity of specific groups within a given molecule. Now, chemists …

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Six Slinn Picks – chemical news

Posted by Robert Slinn on April 6, 2020 Comments Off

The ‘molecular octopus’: A little brother of ‘Schroedinger’s cat’ – For the first time, the quantum behaviour of molecules consisting of more than 400 atoms was demonstrated by quantum physicists based at the University of Vienna in collaboration with chemists …

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Chemical hits from Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 11, 2020 Comments Off

Space ice goes against the grain – Space ice made from a mixture of methanol and water expands under pressure, and shrinks when heated – the opposite behaviour to most solids. Dominic Fortes at University College London, UK, is interested …

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Slinn Pickings chemistry news

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 4, 2020 Comments Off

Host or foreign — the body’s frontline defense mechanism understood – The US Academy of Sciences journal (PNAS) have published an article describing how the first line of defence of the human immune system distinguishes between microbes and the body's …

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Slinn Pickings – the six pack

Posted by Robert Slinn on January 24, 2020 Comments Off

A foaming six-pack of chemical news stories from Reactive Reports with Robert Slinn New microscopy method opens window on previously unseen cell features – Nongjian (N.J.) Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have pioneered …

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