Reaction mechanisms – Page 4
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ResearchLight intensity changes can switch photocatalyst between one- and two-photon mechanisms
Simple optical lens behind strategy for manipulating photochemical reactivity
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OpinionStille cross-coupling
Palladium and tin combined to lay the foundations for a revolution in C–C bond-forming reactions
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ResearchHuman biases cause problems for machines trying to learn chemistry
Including ‘unpopular’ reagents and reaction conditions into datasets could lead to better machine-learning models
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ResearchCatalyst cleans up alcohol couplings
Eight years’ work yields Mitsunobu chemistry with nothing but water as a byproduct
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ResearchPush–pull radical theory finally vindicated after decades of back and forth
Solvent effect proves that captodative effect really exists after all
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ResearchElectric field flicks switch for bond breaking reaction
Proof that electrostatics can selectively power up one reaction in a multistep process
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ResearchQuantum mechanical mechanism behind 100-year-old textbook reaction revealed
Study challenges established understanding of Michael addition as it uncovers Pauli repulsion’s key role in halogen catalysis
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NewsInternational Space Station experiments will search for key to soot-free flames
Microgravity research could help to burn fuels more cleanly and cut soot’s contribution to ill health and climate change
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ResearchSurprising radical mechanisms of antioxidant polysulfides
Tetrasulfide prevents oxidation of petroleum products through radical reactions
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ResearchThe five reactions on every organic chemist’s wish list
Synthesis has some catching-up to do to create the reactions every drug discovery chemist dreams of
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ResearchWalking radicals relocate double bonds
Nickel-guided radicals walk along carbon chains to make E-alkenes from terminal alkenes
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ResearchPatent-busting AI tool navigates around protected drug pathways
Organic retrosynthesis software can identify key bonds involved in patented reactions to find alternative pathways
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ResearchWeird mechanism behind catnip compound’s biosynthesis uncovered
Nepetalactone – the compound cats go crazy for – is made by a two-step procedure that is unlike any other in terpenoid biosynthesis
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ResearchRobotic organic synthesis to make reproducibility simple in chemistry
Chemputer claims universality after making three drugs without human intervention