Chemistry World 评出的2008年发表的化学领域的29篇重要学术论文
Cutting edge chemistry in 2008
17 December 2008
What were the biggest chemical breakthroughs published by scientists during 2008? In consultation with an expert panel of scientists and journal editors, Chemistry World reviews the best work and important trends of the year's published science papers
Energy agenda
Climate change and energy security continued to make headlines during 2008, and chemistry once again spearheaded the quest for carbon-neutral alternative energy sources. Splitting water to produce oxygen and hydrogen is perhaps the ultimate clean energy source, but it usually requires expensive platinum catalysts. Going some way to address this problem, Dan Nocera and colleagues at MIT discovered a cheap, cobalt- and phosphorus-based catalyst for the oxygen-producing side of the electrochemical water-splitting reaction (Chemistry World (CW), September 2008, p25)[1]. Meanwhile, Bjorn Winther-Jensen and colleagues at Monash University showed that a polymer-based electrode could also replace platinum in the reverse reaction - that is, combining oxygen and hydrogen in a fuel cell to produce electricity (CW September, p25)[2].
Water-splitting powered by solar electricity could be an effective way to store sunshine as chemical energy. Capturing that sunlight looks set to become much more efficient, thanks to the organic solar energy concentrators developed by Marc Baldo, also of MIT (CW August, p25)[3]. Two dyes coated on a sheet of glass collect short-wavelength sunlight and convert it to longer wavelengths. This light bounces around in the collector before reaching the edges, where it's picked up by photovoltaic cells - effectively capturing more wavelengths of sunlight with fewer cells.
Harnessing plants' ability to harvest sunlight is also high on the research agenda - one key question being how to break down plant cellulose into useable sugars. Ferdi Schüth at the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim, Germany, showed that solid acid catalysts can turn cellulose into sugars, once it's been dissolved in an ionic liquid (CW November, p24) [4]. And James Dumesic's team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explained how to strip the oxygen atoms from these sugars to give bio-petrol (CW October, p24)[5]. But nature could also offer a solution to the cellulose problem: a fungus found in the Patagonian rainforest can convert cellulose directly into biodiesel (CW December, p22) [6].
Synthetic short-cuts
Ever-increasing efficiencies in organic synthesis continued during 2008, with Stanford University's Barry Trost cracking Tamiflu - the drug governments are stockpiling in case of a flu pandemic - in just 8 steps, and in 30 per cent overall yield (CW May, p24)[7]. Trost also showed how to make complex anti-cancer compound bryostatin 16 in 39 steps - significantly fewer than the 70 steps needed in earlier attempts (CW January 2009, p27) [8]. And Caltech's Brian Stoltz made tricyclic anti-tumour natural product (-)-cyanthiwigin F in just nine steps - a structure that would typically take 25 steps - without using a single protecting group (CW August, p24)[9]. Stoltz's key reaction was a palladium-based asymmetric alkylation, but organocatalysis pioneer Dave MacMillan continues to show that metals aren't necessarily needed for successful synthesis. Princeton-based MacMillan combined an imidazolidinone organocatalyst with a metal-based catalyst in a one-pot, two-catalyst system. The catalytic pair install alkyl groups at the alpha position of aldehydes, a long-sought transformation never mastered before (CW October, p21)[10].
But as with energy, sometimes in synthesis it's best to let nature do the work. Manfred Reetz at Mulheim's Max Planck Institute continued his research developing biocatalysts, developing a screening program for yeasts that automatically kills off poor performers. Yeasts catalysing an undesired reaction release a toxin that kills them, whereas those catalysing the correct reaction release a food source (CW December, p28)[11]. Meanwhile, Lin Jiang from the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues used computer design to create an artificial enzyme from scratch - work which brings on the prospect of bespoke enzymes designed for any given chemical reaction (CW April, p29)[12].
Nature is also a rich source of potential drug molecules, and a new approach by the University of Oklahoma's Robert Cichewicz shows how this resource could be expanded even further [13]. Fungi have the genes to make a far greater number of compounds than they actually produce - but Cichewicz reactivated some of these 'silent' metabolic pathways, producing a new suite of natural products for testing (CW June, p34)[14].
Big Brother
Chemists keen to improve the performance of catalysts were treated to demonstrations of tracking techniques that could picture catalysts during reactions at nanometre resolution. X-ray microscopy (CW December, p23)[14] and magnetic resonance imaging (CW March, p39)[15] have been used to peer inside microreactors to follow the course of catalysis, while Paul Mulvaney at the University of Melbourne measured reaction rates on individual gold nanocrystals using surface plasmon spectroscopy. With some signal-to-noise improvement, it should be possible to study single molecule interactions with the nanocrystal surface, says Mulvaney.
Meanwhile, Karma Sawyer and Jacob Schlegel at the University of California, Berkeley, used 2D-IR to capture information about the transition state of a rearrangement reaction taking place in solution [17]. By tracking changes in the molecule's vibrational modes during a reaction, the technique reveals direct evidence for the time scale, transition state, and mechanism of the process.
Caught in a trap
New chemical structures that hold fast to elusive ions and molecules were also showcased in 2008. Polly Arnold and Jason Love at the University of Edinburgh captured the very stable uranyl dication [UO2]2+ - the most common form. of uranium - inside a cyclic organic framework. Trapping this cation weakens the uranium-oxygen bonds enough for one oxygen to be chemically modified - suggesting a similar approach may help to treat neptunium and plutonium analogues in nuclear waste (CW February, p29)[18]. At the other end of the reactivity scale, Kim Baines and colleagues at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, successfully trapped a highly reactive germanium dication inside a cryptand cage - the first 'naked' dication of a non-metal ever reported (CW January 2009, p26)[19].
Omar Yaghi and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles applied high throughput chemistry to make a series of highly porous crystalline materials called zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) ([url=http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/February/14020802.asp)[20]www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/February/14020802.asp)[20[/url]].
Yaghi subsequently showed how effectively these structures capture carbon dioxide - the best trapping 30 litres of the greenhouse gas in a litre of space, at atmospheric pressure (CW June, p23)[21]. The ZIFs could be used to purify gas streams containing carbon dioxide, as they have excellent selectivity thanks to functional groups which act like 'revolving doors' - allowing CO2 molecules to enter but keeping out other gases such as nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide.
Cheaper technology
George Whitesides continued his research into cutting the cost of microfluidic technology, so as to improve healthcare in the developing world. Whitesides's Harvard team designed a cheap microfluidic system based on paper (CW October, p4)[22]. The paper, coated with a photoresist monomer, has microfluidic channels drawn or printed onto it. Exposing the paper to sunlight triggers polymerisation, and washing off the unreacted monomer reveals the microfluidic channels. In related work, Whitesides showed that a cheap centrifuge able to separate blood plasma from cells could be made from an egg whisk - allowing point-of-care blood analysis in remote regions without access to electric centrifuges (CW November, p28)[23].
Chemistry World's 2007 review highlighted the promise of graphene (a single atom thick layerof carbon) which had been used in transistors and sensors able to detect individual gas molecules. But the graphene used in these studies was made laboriously, peeled layer by layer from graphite. A series of papers during 2008 improved on approaches to graphene production: from chemically breaking down graphite oxide in solution (www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/January/28010802.asp)[24], to the latest research which gives gram quantities of graphene by pyrolising the product made by reacting sodium with ethanol (CW January 2009, p23)[25].
Taste testing
Moving from the laboratory to kitchen chemistry, so-called 'electronic tongues' became ever more sophisticated, providing automated taste tests far more objective than human senses can manage. Richard Compton's team of electrochemists at Oxford University used multiwall carbon nanotubes as electrodes to detect the concentration of the heat-causing capsaicinoids in chilli sauces, allowing us to measure sauce strength without the risk of a burning tongue (CW June, p34)[26]. And Spanish scientists developed a portable robotic tongue with a taste for vintage wine. It employs an array of six ion-sensitive chemical sensors to detect a wine's variety and vintage - revealing whether that classic Bordeaux really is what it's claimed to be (CW September, p32)[27].
But perhaps the most intriguing discovery of the year was a new set of high-temperature superconductors, produced from an unlikely area of the periodic table. For two decades, the search for superconductors that worked at high temperatures has been restricted to copper - but in February 2008 Hideo Hosono's team at theTokyo Institute of Technology reported an iron-containing compound that could carry electricity with no resistance at 26K. It quickly spawned a whole family of high-temperature superconductors based on iron (CW July, p20)[28], the latest superconductive up to around 55K [29]. An area to watch in 2009.
Did we miss your highlight of the year? Write to us at chemistryworld[at]rsc.org and we'll publish the best suggestions.
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References1 M W Kanan and D G Nocera, Science, 2008, 321, 1072 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1162018)
2 B Winther-Jensen et al, Science, 2008, 321, 671 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1159267)
3 M J Currie et al, Science, 2008, 321, 226 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1158342)
4 R Rinaldi, R Palkovits and F Schuth, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 8047 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200802879)
5 E L Kunkes et al, Science, 2008, 322, 417 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1159210)
6 G A Strobel et al, Microbiology, 2008, 154, 3319 (DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/022186-0)
7 B M Trost and T Zhang, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 3759 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800282)
8 B Trost and G Dong, Nature, 2008, 456, 485, DOI: 10.1038/nature07543
9 J Enquist and B Stoltz, Nature, 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nature07046
10 D A Nicewicz and D W C MacMillan, Science, 2008, 322, 77 (DOI:10.1126/science.1161976)
11 M T Reetz et al, Chem. Commun., 2008, 5502 (DOI: 10.1039/b814538e)
12 L Jiang et al, Science, 2008, 319, 1387 (doi: 10.1126/science.1152692)
13 R B Williams et al, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, 6, 1895, (DOI: 10.1039/b804701d)
14 E de Smit et al, Nature, 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nature07516
15 L-S Bouchard et al, Science, 2007, 319, 442 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1151787)
16 C Novo, A M Funston and P Mulvaney, Nature Nanotechnol., 2008, 3, 598 (DOI:10.1038/nnano.2008.246)
17 J F Cahoon et al, Science, 2008, 319, 1820 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1154041)
18 Arnold, P.L. et al. Nature, 2008, 451, 315 (DOI: 10.1038/nature06467)
19 P A Rupar, V N Staroverov and K M Baines, Science, 2008, 322, 1360 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1163033)
20 B Wang et al, Nature, 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nature06900
21 R Banerjee et al, Science, 2008, DOI: 10.1126/science.1152516
22 A W Martinez et al, Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 2146 (DOI: 10.1039/b811135a)
23. A P Wong et al, Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 2032 (DOI: 10.1039/b809830c)
24 D Li et al, Nature Nanotech., 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.451
25 M Choucair, P Thordarson and J A Stride, Nature Nanotechnol., 2008, (DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.365)
26 R T Kachoosangi, G G Wildgoose and R G Compton, Analyst, 2008, 133, 888
(DOI: 10.1039/b803588a)
27 L Moreno i Codinachs et al, Analyst, 2008, 133, 1440 (DOI: 10.1039/b801228h)
28 Y Kamahira et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 3296 (DOI: 10.1021/ja800073m)
29 C Wang et al, Europhys. Lett., 2008, 83, 67006 (DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/83/67006)
Also of interest
Breakthrough catalyst for splitting water
31 July 2008
Mild electrolysis system boosts hopes for artificial photosynthesis
Concentrating sunlight cuts solar power costs
10 July 2008
Organic dyes feed 'better' wavelengths to photovoltaic cells
Cracking wood gently
30 September 2008
Ionic liquids and solid catalysts combine to hydrolyse cellulose without aggressive acids
Bio-petroleum made from sugars
18 September 2008
Sequential catalysis of sugars yield hydrocarbons suitable for vehicle fuel
Biodiesel from forest fungus
07 November 2008
Patagonian fungus that converts cellulose to biodiesel could challenge theories on fossil fuel origins
The shortest recipe for Tamiflu
16 April 2008
Chemists announce most efficient synthetic route yet to flu-busting drug
Slick synthesis to sea sponge structure
25 June 2008
A new route to a complex sea sponge biomolecule with promising anti-tumour properties hits the target in just nine steps
Two catalysts better than one
04 September 2008
Combining transition metals with organocatalyst to make elusive molecules
Underperforming yeasts opt out of life
01 October 2008
Suicide-committing yeasts assist German scientists striving towards the perfect enzyme for catalysing asymmetric organic reactions
Synthetic enzymes designed by computer
06 March 2008
New, artificial catalysts not quite up to nature's standard
Fungi wake up to new natural products
29 April 2008
Re-awakening 'silent' metabolic pathways in fungi has revealed a new range of natural products to US scientists.
Microscope reveals catalyst secrets
12 November 2008
New X-ray spectroscopy 'nanoreactor' watches catalysts in action
Catalysis probed with MRI
25 January 2008
A new technique can see gas reactions as they happen inside microreactors
Chemists tame the uranyl ion
16 January 2008
A new uranium compound sheds lights on how to make the element more manageable in future
Elusive cation caught in a cage
28 November 2008
The highly reactive germanium dication trapped naked inside a cryptand
Super-sized molecular sponges boost carbon capture
07 May 2008
Robust zeolite remove carbon dioxide from a mix of gases at room temperature
Molecular sponges mop up carbon dioxide
14 February 2008
US researchers have made zeolite-like materials using a new technique that speedily screens thousands of compounds
Lab-on-an-egg-beater
15 October 2008
Scientists whip up new centrifuge using kitchen utensil
New routes to gram-scale graphene
10 December 2008
Researchers produce graphene from sodium and ethanol, raising hopes of real-world applications
Hot chillis evolved to kill fungi
11 August 2008
Study confirms spicy capsaicinoids defend fruit from microbes
The wine fraud detective
31 July 2008
An electronic tongue that can 'taste' the grape varieties and vintages of wine has been created by Spanish scientists.
New superconductors open up the periodic table
30 May 2008
Iron-based materials could help to unlock the secrets of high-temperature superconductivity
17 December 2008
What were the biggest chemical breakthroughs published by scientists during 2008? In consultation with an expert panel of scientists and journal editors, Chemistry World reviews the best work and important trends of the year's published science papers
Energy agenda
Climate change and energy security continued to make headlines during 2008, and chemistry once again spearheaded the quest for carbon-neutral alternative energy sources. Splitting water to produce oxygen and hydrogen is perhaps the ultimate clean energy source, but it usually requires expensive platinum catalysts. Going some way to address this problem, Dan Nocera and colleagues at MIT discovered a cheap, cobalt- and phosphorus-based catalyst for the oxygen-producing side of the electrochemical water-splitting reaction (Chemistry World (CW), September 2008, p25)[1]. Meanwhile, Bjorn Winther-Jensen and colleagues at Monash University showed that a polymer-based electrode could also replace platinum in the reverse reaction - that is, combining oxygen and hydrogen in a fuel cell to produce electricity (CW September, p25)[2].
Water-splitting powered by solar electricity could be an effective way to store sunshine as chemical energy. Capturing that sunlight looks set to become much more efficient, thanks to the organic solar energy concentrators developed by Marc Baldo, also of MIT (CW August, p25)[3]. Two dyes coated on a sheet of glass collect short-wavelength sunlight and convert it to longer wavelengths. This light bounces around in the collector before reaching the edges, where it's picked up by photovoltaic cells - effectively capturing more wavelengths of sunlight with fewer cells.
| Marc Baldo's organic solar concentrators collect and focus different wavelengths of light |
Harnessing plants' ability to harvest sunlight is also high on the research agenda - one key question being how to break down plant cellulose into useable sugars. Ferdi Schüth at the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim, Germany, showed that solid acid catalysts can turn cellulose into sugars, once it's been dissolved in an ionic liquid (CW November, p24) [4]. And James Dumesic's team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explained how to strip the oxygen atoms from these sugars to give bio-petrol (CW October, p24)[5]. But nature could also offer a solution to the cellulose problem: a fungus found in the Patagonian rainforest can convert cellulose directly into biodiesel (CW December, p22) [6].
| Gliocladium roseum, a rainforest fungus, feeds on cellulose and churns out diesel |
Synthetic short-cuts
Ever-increasing efficiencies in organic synthesis continued during 2008, with Stanford University's Barry Trost cracking Tamiflu - the drug governments are stockpiling in case of a flu pandemic - in just 8 steps, and in 30 per cent overall yield (CW May, p24)[7]. Trost also showed how to make complex anti-cancer compound bryostatin 16 in 39 steps - significantly fewer than the 70 steps needed in earlier attempts (CW January 2009, p27) [8]. And Caltech's Brian Stoltz made tricyclic anti-tumour natural product (-)-cyanthiwigin F in just nine steps - a structure that would typically take 25 steps - without using a single protecting group (CW August, p24)[9]. Stoltz's key reaction was a palladium-based asymmetric alkylation, but organocatalysis pioneer Dave MacMillan continues to show that metals aren't necessarily needed for successful synthesis. Princeton-based MacMillan combined an imidazolidinone organocatalyst with a metal-based catalyst in a one-pot, two-catalyst system. The catalytic pair install alkyl groups at the alpha position of aldehydes, a long-sought transformation never mastered before (CW October, p21)[10].
But as with energy, sometimes in synthesis it's best to let nature do the work. Manfred Reetz at Mulheim's Max Planck Institute continued his research developing biocatalysts, developing a screening program for yeasts that automatically kills off poor performers. Yeasts catalysing an undesired reaction release a toxin that kills them, whereas those catalysing the correct reaction release a food source (CW December, p28)[11]. Meanwhile, Lin Jiang from the University of Washington in Seattle and colleagues used computer design to create an artificial enzyme from scratch - work which brings on the prospect of bespoke enzymes designed for any given chemical reaction (CW April, p29)[12].
Nature is also a rich source of potential drug molecules, and a new approach by the University of Oklahoma's Robert Cichewicz shows how this resource could be expanded even further [13]. Fungi have the genes to make a far greater number of compounds than they actually produce - but Cichewicz reactivated some of these 'silent' metabolic pathways, producing a new suite of natural products for testing (CW June, p34)[14].
Big Brother
Chemists keen to improve the performance of catalysts were treated to demonstrations of tracking techniques that could picture catalysts during reactions at nanometre resolution. X-ray microscopy (CW December, p23)[14] and magnetic resonance imaging (CW March, p39)[15] have been used to peer inside microreactors to follow the course of catalysis, while Paul Mulvaney at the University of Melbourne measured reaction rates on individual gold nanocrystals using surface plasmon spectroscopy. With some signal-to-noise improvement, it should be possible to study single molecule interactions with the nanocrystal surface, says Mulvaney.
Meanwhile, Karma Sawyer and Jacob Schlegel at the University of California, Berkeley, used 2D-IR to capture information about the transition state of a rearrangement reaction taking place in solution [17]. By tracking changes in the molecule's vibrational modes during a reaction, the technique reveals direct evidence for the time scale, transition state, and mechanism of the process.
Caught in a trap
New chemical structures that hold fast to elusive ions and molecules were also showcased in 2008. Polly Arnold and Jason Love at the University of Edinburgh captured the very stable uranyl dication [UO2]2+ - the most common form. of uranium - inside a cyclic organic framework. Trapping this cation weakens the uranium-oxygen bonds enough for one oxygen to be chemically modified - suggesting a similar approach may help to treat neptunium and plutonium analogues in nuclear waste (CW February, p29)[18]. At the other end of the reactivity scale, Kim Baines and colleagues at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, successfully trapped a highly reactive germanium dication inside a cryptand cage - the first 'naked' dication of a non-metal ever reported (CW January 2009, p26)[19].
Omar Yaghi and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles applied high throughput chemistry to make a series of highly porous crystalline materials called zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) ([url=http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/February/14020802.asp)[20]www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/February/14020802.asp)[20[/url]].
Yaghi subsequently showed how effectively these structures capture carbon dioxide - the best trapping 30 litres of the greenhouse gas in a litre of space, at atmospheric pressure (CW June, p23)[21]. The ZIFs could be used to purify gas streams containing carbon dioxide, as they have excellent selectivity thanks to functional groups which act like 'revolving doors' - allowing CO2 molecules to enter but keeping out other gases such as nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide.
Cheaper technology
George Whitesides continued his research into cutting the cost of microfluidic technology, so as to improve healthcare in the developing world. Whitesides's Harvard team designed a cheap microfluidic system based on paper (CW October, p4)[22]. The paper, coated with a photoresist monomer, has microfluidic channels drawn or printed onto it. Exposing the paper to sunlight triggers polymerisation, and washing off the unreacted monomer reveals the microfluidic channels. In related work, Whitesides showed that a cheap centrifuge able to separate blood plasma from cells could be made from an egg whisk - allowing point-of-care blood analysis in remote regions without access to electric centrifuges (CW November, p28)[23].
Chemistry World's 2007 review highlighted the promise of graphene (a single atom thick layerof carbon) which had been used in transistors and sensors able to detect individual gas molecules. But the graphene used in these studies was made laboriously, peeled layer by layer from graphite. A series of papers during 2008 improved on approaches to graphene production: from chemically breaking down graphite oxide in solution (www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2008/January/28010802.asp)[24], to the latest research which gives gram quantities of graphene by pyrolising the product made by reacting sodium with ethanol (CW January 2009, p23)[25].
Taste testing
Moving from the laboratory to kitchen chemistry, so-called 'electronic tongues' became ever more sophisticated, providing automated taste tests far more objective than human senses can manage. Richard Compton's team of electrochemists at Oxford University used multiwall carbon nanotubes as electrodes to detect the concentration of the heat-causing capsaicinoids in chilli sauces, allowing us to measure sauce strength without the risk of a burning tongue (CW June, p34)[26]. And Spanish scientists developed a portable robotic tongue with a taste for vintage wine. It employs an array of six ion-sensitive chemical sensors to detect a wine's variety and vintage - revealing whether that classic Bordeaux really is what it's claimed to be (CW September, p32)[27].
| The crystal structure of LaO(1-x)FxFeAs, one of a new family of superconducting materials based on iron |
But perhaps the most intriguing discovery of the year was a new set of high-temperature superconductors, produced from an unlikely area of the periodic table. For two decades, the search for superconductors that worked at high temperatures has been restricted to copper - but in February 2008 Hideo Hosono's team at theTokyo Institute of Technology reported an iron-containing compound that could carry electricity with no resistance at 26K. It quickly spawned a whole family of high-temperature superconductors based on iron (CW July, p20)[28], the latest superconductive up to around 55K [29]. An area to watch in 2009.
Did we miss your highlight of the year? Write to us at chemistryworld[at]rsc.org and we'll publish the best suggestions.
James Mitchell Crow
Enjoy this story? Spread the word using the 'tools' menu on the left.
References1 M W Kanan and D G Nocera, Science, 2008, 321, 1072 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1162018)
2 B Winther-Jensen et al, Science, 2008, 321, 671 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1159267)
3 M J Currie et al, Science, 2008, 321, 226 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1158342)
4 R Rinaldi, R Palkovits and F Schuth, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 8047 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200802879)
5 E L Kunkes et al, Science, 2008, 322, 417 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1159210)
6 G A Strobel et al, Microbiology, 2008, 154, 3319 (DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/022186-0)
7 B M Trost and T Zhang, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 3759 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800282)
8 B Trost and G Dong, Nature, 2008, 456, 485, DOI: 10.1038/nature07543
9 J Enquist and B Stoltz, Nature, 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nature07046
10 D A Nicewicz and D W C MacMillan, Science, 2008, 322, 77 (DOI:10.1126/science.1161976)
11 M T Reetz et al, Chem. Commun., 2008, 5502 (DOI: 10.1039/b814538e)
12 L Jiang et al, Science, 2008, 319, 1387 (doi: 10.1126/science.1152692)
13 R B Williams et al, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, 6, 1895, (DOI: 10.1039/b804701d)
14 E de Smit et al, Nature, 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nature07516
15 L-S Bouchard et al, Science, 2007, 319, 442 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1151787)
16 C Novo, A M Funston and P Mulvaney, Nature Nanotechnol., 2008, 3, 598 (DOI:10.1038/nnano.2008.246)
17 J F Cahoon et al, Science, 2008, 319, 1820 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1154041)
18 Arnold, P.L. et al. Nature, 2008, 451, 315 (DOI: 10.1038/nature06467)
19 P A Rupar, V N Staroverov and K M Baines, Science, 2008, 322, 1360 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1163033)
20 B Wang et al, Nature, 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nature06900
21 R Banerjee et al, Science, 2008, DOI: 10.1126/science.1152516
22 A W Martinez et al, Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 2146 (DOI: 10.1039/b811135a)
23. A P Wong et al, Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 2032 (DOI: 10.1039/b809830c)
24 D Li et al, Nature Nanotech., 2008, DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.451
25 M Choucair, P Thordarson and J A Stride, Nature Nanotechnol., 2008, (DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.365)
26 R T Kachoosangi, G G Wildgoose and R G Compton, Analyst, 2008, 133, 888
(DOI: 10.1039/b803588a)
27 L Moreno i Codinachs et al, Analyst, 2008, 133, 1440 (DOI: 10.1039/b801228h)
28 Y Kamahira et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 3296 (DOI: 10.1021/ja800073m)
29 C Wang et al, Europhys. Lett., 2008, 83, 67006 (DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/83/67006)
Also of interest
Breakthrough catalyst for splitting water31 July 2008
Mild electrolysis system boosts hopes for artificial photosynthesis
Concentrating sunlight cuts solar power costs10 July 2008
Organic dyes feed 'better' wavelengths to photovoltaic cells
Cracking wood gently30 September 2008
Ionic liquids and solid catalysts combine to hydrolyse cellulose without aggressive acids
Bio-petroleum made from sugars18 September 2008
Sequential catalysis of sugars yield hydrocarbons suitable for vehicle fuel
Biodiesel from forest fungus07 November 2008
Patagonian fungus that converts cellulose to biodiesel could challenge theories on fossil fuel origins
The shortest recipe for Tamiflu16 April 2008
Chemists announce most efficient synthetic route yet to flu-busting drug
Slick synthesis to sea sponge structure25 June 2008
A new route to a complex sea sponge biomolecule with promising anti-tumour properties hits the target in just nine steps
Two catalysts better than one04 September 2008
Combining transition metals with organocatalyst to make elusive molecules
Underperforming yeasts opt out of life01 October 2008
Suicide-committing yeasts assist German scientists striving towards the perfect enzyme for catalysing asymmetric organic reactions
Synthetic enzymes designed by computer 06 March 2008
New, artificial catalysts not quite up to nature's standard
Fungi wake up to new natural products29 April 2008
Re-awakening 'silent' metabolic pathways in fungi has revealed a new range of natural products to US scientists.
Microscope reveals catalyst secrets12 November 2008
New X-ray spectroscopy 'nanoreactor' watches catalysts in action
Catalysis probed with MRI 25 January 2008
A new technique can see gas reactions as they happen inside microreactors
Chemists tame the uranyl ion16 January 2008
A new uranium compound sheds lights on how to make the element more manageable in future
Elusive cation caught in a cage28 November 2008
The highly reactive germanium dication trapped naked inside a cryptand
Super-sized molecular sponges boost carbon capture07 May 2008
Robust zeolite remove carbon dioxide from a mix of gases at room temperature
Molecular sponges mop up carbon dioxide14 February 2008
US researchers have made zeolite-like materials using a new technique that speedily screens thousands of compounds
Lab-on-an-egg-beater15 October 2008
Scientists whip up new centrifuge using kitchen utensil
New routes to gram-scale graphene10 December 2008
Researchers produce graphene from sodium and ethanol, raising hopes of real-world applications
Hot chillis evolved to kill fungi11 August 2008
Study confirms spicy capsaicinoids defend fruit from microbes
The wine fraud detective31 July 2008
An electronic tongue that can 'taste' the grape varieties and vintages of wine has been created by Spanish scientists.
New superconductors open up the periodic table30 May 2008
Iron-based materials could help to unlock the secrets of high-temperature superconductivity
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