Search results for metal complexes:
Carbenes: New molecules have wide applications
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a class of carbenes, highly reactive molecules, used to make catalysts - substances that facilitate chemical reactions. ...
Quick, accurate water detection possible
Aug 30, 2006 |
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Scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute say they've developed a method of water detection and measurement that's both rapid and accurate.
Researchers make key step towards turning methane gas into liquid fuel
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have taken an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel ...
Organometallic compounds as new drugs? Cobalt-containing aspirin complex with potential anti-tumor properties
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Despite considerable progress in modern chemotherapy, there remains a large demand for innovative anti-tumor agents. A new approach involves modeling the pharmacological properties of established drugs with organometallic ...
A molecular ripcord for chemical reactions
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) have developed an entirely new method for starting chemical reactions. For the first time they used mechanical forces to control catalytic ...
Converting Nitrogen to a More Useful Form
Jan 09, 2007 |
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Nitrogen-containing organic compounds are important products as well as intermediates for many pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemicals used in electronics. Air contains plenty of nitrogen, but it is in a form that cannot ...
Bacterium helps formation of gold
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Australian scientists have found that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses the biomineralisation of gold by transforming toxic gold compounds to their metallic form using active cellular mechan ...
Silver-rich lumps: Large cluster complexes with almost 500 silver atoms
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Nanoscopic “lumps” of atoms, known as clusters, are the specialty of a research team headed by Dieter Fenske from the University of Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.
Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.
Tailored for optical applications
Nov 09, 2007 |
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When a calcite crystal is placed onto a printed page, the letters appear doubled. This is the result of a property called birefringence. Scientists at the Simon Fraser University in Canada have now developed a material that ...
Metals take a walk
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Jul 12, 2005 |
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Scientists in the Organic Chemistry Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science have caught a glimpse of platinum-based complexes 'walking' a path to their destinations Do metal complexes casually stroll around certain ...
Better chemistry through living models
Jun 06, 2007 |
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Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive $1.98 million from the U.S. Department of Energy over the next three years to emulate nature’s use of enzymes to convert chemicals to energy, PNNL announced ...
Metal atom dictates the structure: new concept for the construction of enzyme inhibitors
Jan 23, 2006 |
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Complex natural products usually adopt precisely defined spatial structures that are of critical importance to their biological function. A substrate must fit precisely into the “pocket” of an enzyme in order to be converted. ...
Kilo of metal found in Peruvian's stomach: surgeon
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said Wednesday.
Scientists develop a unique approach for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen
Apr 06, 2009 |
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The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight is among the most important challenges facing science today, underpinning the long term potential of hydrogen as a clean, sustainable ...
