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Issue 4
Research Highlights
Smoking ban leads to healthier bar staff
A Norwegian study has found a reduction in airborne pollutants and nicotine exposure following a smoking ban in public places.
Longer-lasting bubbles for ultrasound imaging
Scientists in France have discovered a way of making longer-lasting bubbles for use in ultrasound imaging.
Extraterrestrial trigger for life on Earth
Extraterrestrial phosphorus species brought to Earth by comets may have played a role in the origins of life on our planet.
Solvent-free synthesis forms a porous framework
Scientists in Northern Ireland have found a simple and efficient way to make microporous metal-organic frameworks.
European researchers say they can overcome the problems of modelling flow in fluids like mayonnaise, engine oil and snow.
Structure is key to superior hydrogen storage
Researchers in the UK have revealed the structure of a compound they say could have a major impact on hydrogen storage.
Researchers in the Netherlands have made a supramolecular capsule that they say has the makings of a nano-sized reaction chamber.
One step closer to designer catalysts
European researchers have developed a choice of routes to [3]ferrocenophanones, important building blocks for ligands used in asymmetric catalysis.
Logic gate operations performed by enzymes
Enzymes can mimic a computational process involving a system of logic gates, say scientists in Israel.
Stepping stone to total synthesis
Researchers in the UK have made progress towards the synthesis of tagetitoxin, a naturally occurring compound that inhibits RNA polymerase.
Understanding how surfaces wrinkle could help explain the properties of new materials, say scientists in the US and the Netherlands.
Solvent-free methods to make crystals
Researchers in Italy say that mechanochemical reactions could be used to overcome the problem of obtaining crystals of reaction products for characterisation.
Good catalysts require careful design
Designing a good catalyst is a delicate balance between steric and electronic properties, say researchers in Japan
Symmetry adaptation in coordination polymers
Chemists in the UK have developed coordination polymers that adapt their symmetry to respond to hydrogen bonding.
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Accessing higher-energy dissociation channels
Improvement of a powerful spectroscopic technique will open up opportunities to study the structure of proteins and nucleic acids, according to researchers in Canada.
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Chemical Science 2006 Issue 4
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