News tagged with metal complexes


Organometallic compounds as new drugs? Cobalt-containing aspirin complex with potential anti-tumor properties

Chemistry /

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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 ...





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New molecules have wide applications

Carbenes: New molecules have wide applications

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 30, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 0

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

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(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 ...


A molecular ripcord for chemical reactions

A molecular ripcord for chemical reactions

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

Chemistry /

created Jan 09, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

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

Bacterium helps formation of gold

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

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

Chemistry /

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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.


A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic

A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National ...


A light touch: Iron complexes as efficient catalysts for the light-driven extraction of hydrogen from water

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy carrier that can be efficiently converted into electrical energy in fuel cells. One hurdle to the introduction of sustainable hydrogen technology is the fact that ...


Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.



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