Category: 6. Chemistry

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In the past three years, well over a hundred journals have been delisted by Clarivate, the owner of Web of Science. This is the result of the analytics firm getting tougher on journals failing to meet its quality selection criteria. The…

A novel targeted drug delivery system could help improve the efficacy of medicines for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by ensuring they are released directly to the affected area of the gut.

Medicines such as corticosteroids are generally…

‘One of our colleagues described the email as a godsend,’ says Paul Kavanagh, chair of The All-Ireland Network for Gender Equality in Chemistry about an early offer to help chemistry departments with their Athena Swan applications. The…

Two researchers in Spain have analysed the occupation of carbon atoms’ effective atomic orbitals to create a framework for quantifying substituent effects in aromatic systems.¹ By linking electronic structure to inductive and resonance effects,…

Immobilization of ^AFPAb on sensor disk using various strategies

Generally biomolecules like antibody or enzyme are immobilized on matrix via physical or covalent methods. Leaching of the biomolecules from the matrix impedes the utilization of…

Preparation of methyl 2-(phenylthio) acetate

In a 250 mL round-bottom flask, 1 mmol of thiophenol, 1 mmol of triethylamine, and 2 mL of dry tetrahydrofuran solvent were added and stirred. Then, dropwise, ethyl bromopyruvate (1 mmol) or bromomethyl…

Synthesis

Material and instrumentation

Commercial reagents and solvents were purchased from Merck, Fisher Scientific, TCI or Fluorochem. Deuterated solvents were provided from Merck. Reactions were monitored by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) using…