Table of Contents

• Organic chemistry
• Inorganic chemistry
• Physical Chemistry and electronics
• Analytical chemistry and metrics
• Biotechnology and life sciences
• Environmental sciences
• Materials
• Processing
• Business and government

Organic chemistry

Rearrange N-allylanilines to indoline derivatives

This catalyst promotes Suzuki coupling of halides and triflates with arylboronic acids under mild conditions

Catalyst promotes high efficiency in Friedel–Crafts acylation

Prepare unprotected, N-linked glycopeptide building blocks using solid-phase synthesis

Use enzymes to unlock a safety catch and release products bound to resins

Can combinatorial chemistry techniques be adapted to air–water interfaces?

Here’s an easy way to achieve acetamidoglycosylation of alcohols and carbohydrates

Ketones can be reduced directly to hydrocarbons using a one-pot process and a heterogeneous catalyst

Synthesize esters and amides from 2,2,2-trihaloethylesters in one pot

Benzoic acid derivatives can be para-alkylated using electrophiles

Friedel–Crafts acylations are promoted by ytterbium catalysts in a fluorous biphase reaction

Inorganic chemistry

Mesoporous silica provides a simple route for preparing silver nanowire

Evidence points to a surprising stability for carbonic acid

This sol-gel method makes single silica nanotubes

A new family of solid oxides exhibits fast oxide–ion conductivity

Physical chemistry and electronics

Analytical chemistry and metrics

Measure the ratio of single-to-double stranded DNA with time-resolved fluorescence assay

Confocal microscopy can be used to examine the interior structure of materials

Raman spectroscopy enjoys a resurgence

Biotechnology and life sciences

HIV crisis spurs new approaches to artificial blood substitutes

Design of biologically active polypeptides requires careful control of macromolecular architecture

A family of taste receptor proteins is specifically expressed in human taste receptor cells

Organotin monomers build antibacterial properties into polymers

Environmental sciences

Materials

Use polymer imprinting for selective uranium extraction

A new family of porous magnesium oxides displays high affinity for organic molecules

Molecularly imprinted polymers may result in better microelectronic chips

This polymer’s molecular weight is pH-dependent

Use thermal cross-linking to enhance the compressive strength of poly(benzobisthiazole)

Use sugar-coated dendrimers as reactive surfaces for noble metal particle fabrication

Silica gel can now be easily functionalized with surface carboxyl groups via silane coupling agents

Polyaniline-sheathed emitters replace gold for nano-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

Processing

This catalytic process improves selectivity in chromatography

Business and government