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Chemical Science

Chemical science news from across RSC Publishing.



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glass of champagne poured from a bottle

Instant insight: Lovely bubbly

05 September 2008

Gérard Liger-Belair, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, celebrates what give champagne its sparkle


PET scan of brain

Copper-free clicking

05 September 2008

Dutch scientists have stepped towards improving the tracers used in the 3D imaging of cancerous tumours


Nickel-ruthenium complex

Designing natural product hybrids with anticancer activity

04 September 2008

A potent hybrid of two anticancer natural products has been designed and synthesised by UK chemists.


planet Titan

A Titan discovery

29 August 2008

European researchers step closer to explaining hydrocarbon formation on Saturn's largest moon.


crystal structure

Crystal phases get ID'd

20 August 2008

It is now easier to automatically ID crystal phases in zeolites, thanks to scientists in Spain


Bandage

Knockout nanoparticles fight infection

20 August 2008

Septicaemia causing bacteria take a blow from two different types of antibacterial nanoparticles


Chemical Science

Chemical Science issue 9 available online now

20 August 2008

Drawing together the best content from all RSC publications, to provide a snapshot of the latest developments across the chemical sciences.


propylene oxide structure

Propylene oxide gets a green makeover

18 August 2008

An industrially important compound is made in a more environmentally conscious way


lemons

Sweet smell of success

18 August 2008

German scientists have used an ionic liquid coating on a hydrogenation catalyst to make sweet smelling chemicals


inorganic naming solution

Getting to grips with complex chirality

14 August 2008

A proposal for defining the chirality of octahedral complexes with chelate ligands has been put forward


Nickel-ruthenium complex

Energy from model enzymes

12 August 2008

Mimicking enzymes with inorganic complexes could offer a new route to catalysing hydrogen fuel cells, claim Japanese scientists.


man sniffing a glass of red wine

Instant insight: Tasting the chemistry

12 August 2008

Susan Ebeler, University of California, Davis, US, reveals the science behind the flavour in everyone's favourite tipple


explosion hazard symbol

When convection goes without a bang

05 August 2008

UK researchers have been investigating how to predict whether a reacting mixture will explode


newspapers

Newspaper filters out gold

04 August 2008

Ordinary newspaper can be used to recover precious metals from industrial wastewater, say researchers in Japan


wines in glasses

The wine fraud detective

31 July 2008

An electronic tongue that can 'taste' the grape varieties and vintages of wine has been created by Spanish scientists.