Heart Cut

Ideas from the science, technical, and business literature

Heart Cut items appear in the same order as the print version. You may choose to browse the items as they appear or read specific items as classified into the following categories.

New Home for Heart Cut

Although this is the last issue of Chemical Innovation, the Heart Cut and Patent Watch departments will live on in another "location". Beginning in early 2002, new items will appear weekly on the Web at ACS's portal, www.chemistry.org. Many of the current contributors will continue to summarize the chemical literature for you.

Organic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry
Physical chemistry and electronics
Analytical chemistry and metrics
Biotechnology and life sciences
Materials
Processing
Business and Government
General

Organic chemistry: Use a tin-zeolite solid catalyst to convert ketones into esters and lactones; Polyoxometallates have been gaining acceptance in organic synthesis; Prepare 1,2-diamines by a titanocene-catalyzed amide coupling; Convert silyl and tetrahydropyranyl ethers selectively into the corresponding acetates
Inorganic chemistry: Mesoporous aluminosilicates with unique physical and chemical properties are exceptionally stable; Inorganic nanowires can be produced inside a liquid crystal template
Physical chemistry and electronics: This phenylenevinylene oligomer produces luminescence within a sol–gel matrix; Use polycyclic arene esters to produce luminescence in almost any visible color; Doping titanium dioxide with nitrogen atoms produces a photocatalyst activated by visible light
Analytical chemistry and metrics: New liquid crystalline sensors provide an easy way to determine exposure to analytes; Chemical reactions buried at interfaces can be monitored nondestructively
Biotechnology and life sciences: These biocompatible copolymers are readily obtained by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP); Industrial-scale, genomics-based drug design will play a major role in pharmaceutical research; Cyclopentenone prostaglandins protect against HIV virus in vitro and against influenza A virus in vivo; Computer-guided design permits the synthesis of a precisely structured glucopyranose receptor
Materials: Phthalocyanine (PC) cores with poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) peripheral oligomers have novel properties; Could this be an industrial application for new carbon nanofilaments?; Phospholipids can self-assemble into both nanotubes and twisted ribbons
Processing: This fluorine-containing titanium complex promotes living polymerization of olefins; A large-scale route to enantiomerically pure cetirizine uses preparative chiral HPLC

Heart Cut (1) (2) (3) || Return to Top || Table of Contents