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From Chemistry Views, 29 December 2022: “Masayuki Inoue, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues have performed the first total synthesis of puberulin C. The team started from 2-cyclohexenone, which forms the A ring of the target compound. A double Mannich reaction was then used to introd

  Following New Year celebrations, there are plenty of great web articles on fireworks – for example, http://ms.spr.ly/612175Bof5 and http://ms.spr.ly/612105Bofi At school we burned many chemicals to examine their spectra, including some that whistled loudly as they went up in flames. What w

  New ways to recycle high-density polyethylene (HDPE) are emerging, at low energy cost. Chemists in the US have developed ways to break HDPE into monomers that can be re-polymerized as new plastics with properties similar to polyethylene.   Mother Nature, however, is already in on the

Every chemist’s journey is different, but some are more eccentric than others. We’d love to hear about the unique steps that got you to where you are today.   C&EN’s popular career ladder feature reveals that it isn’t always a straight line from the school lab to a job as a chemist. Consi

Most of the NH3 in the world is made by the Haber-Bosch process, which takes hydrogen gas made from fossil-fuel feedstocks combined with N2. Alexandr Simonov, Douglas MacFarlane, and coworkers from Monash University improved on an electrochemical, lithium-mediated N2 reduction reaction to make

Try to describe the flavor of soy sauce to someone that’s never tried it: salty, bitter, sweet, umami… it’s difficult to explain using our limited vocabulary. Luckily, chemistry doesn’t rely on words. For the first time, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) unlocked the secr

Feeling guilty about that Christmas turkey? Soon, you might not have to. In 2022 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) give the stamp of approval to lab-grown chicken. While it might not be on the shelves in the near future, it’s exciting news for omnivores looking to reduce our environment

Create your own ChemDraw Christmas decoration (see examples below) and post it to this ChemMazing thread for a no-holds-barred ChemDraw Christmas Contest! You can enter as many times as you like, to maximise your chances! Check out Buckminsterfullerene and candy alkane christmas decorations. &

Originally judged as being only of middling intellectual capability, Louis Pasteur was the first to propose chirality in molecules (1847), proved the true cause of fermentation (1857), invented pasteurization (1862), and much, much more. In his later life, Pasteur lived in an apartment in the Paste

Chemistry Europe, the collection of European chemical societies, has (re-)launched its journal “ChemistryEurope.” The journal is open access with no subscription barrier. Here’s the pitch:  ChemistryEurope brings together the brightest minds in chemistry. We publish authoritative research on a