All Chemistry World articles in December 2023
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ResearchRare medical transmission of Alzheimer’s disease from donor to patient discovered
Human growth hormone extracted from cadavers passed disease protein to at least five people
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CareersHelping others is hard to incentivise, but an important part of work
Voluntary assistance is the most valuable kind
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CareersThe chemists creating knowledge-sharing websites
Speeding up scientific progress by sharing organic chemistry techniques, lab safety resources and computational procedures
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CareersOnline resources for chemists
A selection of tools, databases and advice sites to support your research
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OpinionLetters: December 2023
Readers stand up for school technicians, share concerns about fireworks and speculate about element 121
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PuzzleDecember 2023 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the December 2023 print issue of Chemistry World
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OpinionCompounding problems
Regulating the line between a vital service and grey-market profiteering is a mess
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OpinionAre chemicals the elephant in the sustainability room?
What the transition to a net zero, circular economy means for chemists and the chemicals industry
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ResearchNew silicon-based protecting group removable with blue light
Benzoyldiisopropylchlorosilane protects primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols, and also works alongside other protecting groups
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FeatureReaching into the non-covalent toolbox
Alongside supramolecular stalwarts, budding bonding forms are vying to be valuable, finds Andy Extance
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FeatureThe mechanical side of bonding
Synthetic chemists are finally mastering the assembly of interlocked molecules held together by the mechanical bond, find James Mitchell Crow
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OpinionTowards a unified theory of bonding
Explaining trends across the periodic table with the help of node-induced electron confinement
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OpinionDo bond classifications help or hinder chemistry?
Ionic, covalent, metallic and more… but there’s debate about whether bonds are real at all
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FeatureWhen a bond gets too extreme
Chemical bonds are part of the way chemists rationalise the behaviour of atoms in the conditions of the world around them. Tim Wogan looks at how they are affected when those conditions change
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OpinionBonds are the ties that bind chemistry
Those seemingly simple sticks belie our most complex concept
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OpinionWill new lab-developed ingredients pass the taste test?
An insight into the future of traditional meals
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OpinionSearching for new physics using ultracold molecules
‘Clock transitions’ could make it possible to discover if a flaw in the Standard Model exists – without the need for high-energy particle colliders