July 2005
Selected articles available online.
July 2005 cover
Column
RAE to ignore impact factors
'Place of publication and impact factors will not carry any quality implications in RAE 2008', according to Professor Jeremy Sanders, chair of the chemistry sub-panel for RAE 2008,...
Medicinal compounds
John Mann, Queen's University Belfast, takes a look at drugs on the market. In this issue: bird flu - how can chemistry help?
Zafra Lerman - a rebel with a cause
This year's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Nyholm lecturer is Zafra Lerman, the founder of the department of science and mathematics at Columbia College Chicago in 1977.
Exhibition Chemistry
Traffic lights
In this series, Colin Baker of Bedford School provides spectacular demonstrations, designed to capture the student's imagination.
Features
Investigating the secrets of the Stradivarius
For the past 200 years violin makers around the world have sought to produce violins that would rival those of Stradivari and Guarneri made during 1700-50. Could, for example, the ...
Pain relief: from coal tar to paracetamol
Analgesics, ie pain-relieving drugs, fall into two categories: those that also reduce body temperature in fevers (antipyretics), and those that act mainly on the brain - typically ...
Reviews
Essential A2 chemistry for OCR
Ted Lister and Jane Renshaw
Thinking through science 3
Arthur Cheyney, Howard Flavell, Chris Harrison, George Hurst and Carolyn Yates
Organic chemistry at a glance
L. M. Harwood, J. E. McKendrick and R. C. Whitehead
Endpoint
How can we sustain our energy?
Can the hydrogen economy offer a stable and dependable electricity supply in the future or should we look to a much greater dependence on nuclear power?
Infochem
