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Polymers

Polymers produce bright white light

10 November 2009

White light for colour displays can be produced from organic polymers



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Single-base DNA resolution

04 November 2009

A fluorescent probe sensitive to differences at the single-base-level of DNA has been created by researchers in Japan



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Self-repairing polymers

02 November 2009

Howard Colquhoun and his team developed a supramolecular polymer that has healing characteristics due to non-covalent interactions



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Camphor-derivatives strike gold

02 November 2009

Shu-Li You and colleagues discover camphor-derived triasolium salts to be highly efficient catalysts for the Michael reaction



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Silkworm moth binding pheromones

02 November 2009

Antony Hooper  and co-workers use ESI-MS to analyse the phermone-binding protein of the silkworm moth



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Superior dye sensitized solar cell performance

30 October 2009

Pi-Tai Chou, Yun Chi and colleagues report a new series of ruthenium-based sensitizers for solar cell applications with 10.05 conversion efficiency!



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Catalytic hydrodehalogenation of polychlorinated biphenyls

30 October 2009

Cazin and co-workers use palladium N-heterocyclic carbene complexes to catalyse hydrodehalogenation of polychlorinated biphenyls



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Controlling morphology and dimensions

30 October 2009

Jurriaan Huskens and Xing Yi Ling fabricate supramolecular hybrid particle structures with controllable morphology and dimensions



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Bridging supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering

22 October 2009

Stuart Batten and his team have designed a series of 1- and 2-D coordination polymers that show guest dependent variation of the ligand length



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Modular methodology for affinity labeling

22 October 2009

Munetaka Kunishima and colleagues have developed a convenient modular method for affinity labeling, based on catalytic amidation



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Beta-amidoaldehydes via oxazoline hydroformylation

20 October 2009

Geoffrey Coates and co-workers convert oxazolines to beta-amidoaldehydes in the presence of synthesis gas and catalytic dicobalt octacarbonyl



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Organometallic wheels based on coinage metal ions

19 October 2009

Rasika Dias and colleagues synthesise three organometallic "spoke-wheel" complexes involving readily available coinage metal salts and norbornene