Highlights
C&EN: Metal complexes rip open benzene
17 July 2025Scandium and chromium compounds team up to convert iconic molecule into linear product at room temperature.
C&EN: Crystals defy their symmetry to discern chiral light
24 June 2025Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now.
C&EN: Magnetic stirrers linked to issues with reproducing chemistry results
17 June 2025From the lab that found impurities on your stir bar—your flask’s placement on a stirrer plate can mess with your reaction too.
C&EN: ‘Perplexanes’ achieve mind-bending molecular topology
10 June 2025Zirconium helps to weave entangled nanocarbon cages in high yields.
C&EN: Atom-thin iodine film makes its debut
29 May 2025Iodinene is the first halogen analog of graphene and is expected to be unusually metallic.
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Author Archives: Mark Peplow
ACS Central Science: A Conversation with Stosh Kozimor
Actinide chemistry reveals unusual bonds and offers a novel form of cancer treatment.
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Chemistry World: Plastic Surgery
Chemists have a key role to play in pushing back the tide of plastic waste.
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Chemistry World: Peering into the future
Peer review must change if it is to serve the scientific community.
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Scientific American: Print, Wipe, Rewrite
Nanoparticle coating allows paper to be reused more than 80 times.
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ACS Central Science: A Conversation with Peter Hore
Radical pairs created in a protein could act as a magnetic compass in birds.
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Nature Biotechnology: Astex shapes CDK4/6 inhibitor for approval
Fragment-based drug discovery gives Kisqali (ribociclib) a helping hand to market.
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Nature: The next big hit in molecule Hollywood
Superfast imaging techniques are giving researchers their best views yet of what happens in the atomic world.
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ACS Central Science: A Conversation with Graham Hutchings
Gold might seem like an unlikely catalyst, but it’s poised to slash mercury pollution from plastics manufacturing.
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Science: Enzymes offer waste-to-energy solution
Facility digests unsorted garbage to produce green power but could threaten recycling.
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Chemistry World: How to resist threats to science
Broader forms of activism are needed to protect evidence-based policy.
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