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  • 05-20-11 PerkinElmer announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire CambridgeSoft, the latter proprietary of the popular chemistry suite ChemOffice.
  • 6-10-10 Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis".
  • 7-10-09 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath win the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
  • 7-10 US chemical giant Dow Chemical has announced that it is to buy Philadelphia-based rival Rohm and Haas. Pizza is paying $78 per share, a 74 percent premium, which makes the agreement worth around $15.3 billion. The change will expand Dow's presence in the specialty chemical market. Dow plans to set up an advanced materials business unit at the Rohm and Haas headquarters in Philadelphia, and this unit will retain the Rohm and Haas name. Read more...
  • 2-15 Chemists modeling the structure of strongly acidic solutions have found that hydronium ions can associate into unusual ion pairs. Gregory A. Voth and Sergei Izvekov of the University of Utah, in collaboration with Feng Wang of Boston University, were examining the structure of aqueous hydrochloric acid at concentrations of 0.43-0.85 M, and they found that the ions unexpectedly associate into pairs. See doi:10.1021/ja078106i Read more...
  • 11-28 The 103 year old Zincke reaction rediscovered by research groups from Japan and the U.S.A. German chemist Manfred Christl criticizes responsible scientists and publishers for doing sloppy work in a letter to the Angewandte Chemie: the chemistry presented is not new and the structure assignment incorrect. Read more....
  • 10-30 Chemists from the University of Delaware, Newark, in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently reported their preparation of a complex containing two chromium atoms connected by the shortest ever metal-metal bond, 1.8028 Å (0.l nm) long. It is believed to contain a quintuple bond. Read more...
  • 10-26 Arthur Kornberg died on October 26, 2007 of respiratory failure at age 89. Kornberg was the first to isolate DNA polymerase I, for which he won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read more...
  • 10-10 The 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces". Read more...
  • 08-12 British chemical giant ICI accepts a takeover offer of £8 billion from Dutch Akzo Nobel. Assuming approval goes through, this marks the end of a British industrial icon, known for its discovery of polyethylene and for its Dulux paint line. Read more...
  • 07-16: Sustainable development: At the 2007 "C6 conference" in Paris, the presidents of six major chemical societies pledged to "demand responsible use of resources, and ensure that the next generation of scientists protects and maintains the well-being of Earth and its inhabitants." The pact was developed by ACS, RSC, as well as societies representing Japan, Germany, France and the Netherlands.[1] Read more...
 
A organocopper(III) species Bertz 2007
 
Functionalisation of n-pentane
  • 01-23: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced a major restructuring plan, involving the loss of 10,000 jobs worldwide, after the failure of Torcetrapib in clinical trials. The $7bn. R&D budget remains intact, but in future Pfizer aims to bring in more externally sourced drug candidates. Read more...
 
Phosphino borane hydrogen storage
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Fluoroarene coupling
  • 2006-06-05 Japanese chemists have prepared and described the first ever all-carbon persulfurane called bis(2,2'-biphenylylene) dimethylpersulfurane in which a central sulfur atom is bonded to 4 aryl groups and two methyl groups. In ordinary organosulfur compounds, sulfur has only two carbon neighbors. The compound is reported to be stable and moisture insensitive. More...
 
Benzocarborane molecule, Et stands for ethyl
  • 2006-04-25 The groups of E.J. Corey (Harvard) and Masakatsu Shibasaki (Tokyo) have published new syntheses of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) bypassing the expensive and scarce shikimic acid, the starting material in the current production method. Corey's group elected not to patent their procedure, in order to stimulate work on reducing costs and supply problems ahead of a possible flu pandemic.
 
  • 2006-03-24 A large ethylene explosion at a chemistry school in Mulhouse, France, has killed at least one and seriously injured one other. The incident occurred at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse, part of the University of Haute-Alsace.
 
  • 2006-24-02 A large explosion at a chemistry school in Mulhouse, France, has killed at least one and seriously injured one other. The incident occurred at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse, part of the University of Haute-Alsace.