A team of chemists has unveiled a novel method to simplify the synthesis of piperidines, a key structural component in many pharmaceuticals. The study combines biocatalytic carbon-hydrogen oxidation ...

Researchers have decoded the genetic blueprint of Penicillium citrinum, a common citrus mold, to uncover how nature produces cyclopentachromone -- a key building block for bioactive compounds with ...

We are taking cross-sector action in writing to government ministers, as the UK urgently needs a strategic, joined-up approach, led by central Government, for the use and management of materials in ...

Computational chemistry describes the use of computer modelling and simulation – including ab initio approaches based on quantum chemistry, and empirical approaches – to study the structures ...

Philipp Klahn, Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Inspired by nature’s design, Philipp Klahn’s research focuses on the synthesis of bioactive molecules and drugs, with a ...

To provide travel and conference funding for early-career chemists from developing countries to attend the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon). Since 1995, ...

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The University of Hull is to close its chemistry department. It said student numbers were "so low that these courses are no longer financially or educationally sustainable". The university added ...

In addition, the university said it would seek to retain accreditation of these programmes by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Reading is the third university in the UK to propose closures in its ...

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