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Carolyn Bertozzi: Glycan Chemist

Edit The Scientist 01 Jun 2016
“As early as I remember, he would talk about how, when we grew up, we were going to be nuclear physicists,” recalls the Stanford University chemistry professor ... Bertozzi Blossoms. No fear ...   ... Because the initial reaction was rather slow under physiological conditions, the lab then developed a biocompatible copper-free azide-alkyne cycloaddition chemistry, a reaction now often referred to as copper-free click chemistry....

Professional Notes for April 20, 2016 (University of Saint Thomas)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Saint Thomas). William Cavert. Dr. William Cavert, History Department, College of Arts and Sciences, is the author of 'Urban Pollution and The Country and the City,' published in Global Environment. A Journal of Transdisciplinary History ... Dr ... 80-113 ... Eric Fort (with student co-authors Joseph Jaye, Benjamin Gelinas and Grant McCormick), 'Mechanistic insights from the aryl-alkyne ring closure of 10b-aza-10c-borapyrene.'....

Amsterdam chemistry students excel at KNCV poster competition (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Mar 2016
(Source. Universiteit van Amsterdam). 7 March 2016. At the PAC symposium held 3 March at Leiden University, UvA chemistry student Marianne Lankelma has won the Young KNCV Poster Competition ... Photo. KNCV. Marianne Lankelma's award-winning poster reflected her research into the activation of terminal alkynes by means of a homogeneous catalyst containing two neighbouring gold atoms ... KNCV. Published by HIMS ... (noodl....

Great Progress in the Controlled Synthesis of Non-noble Alloy Nanocrystals (University of Science and Technology ...

Edit Public Technologies 16 Nov 2015
(Source. University of Science and Technology of China). Recently, the research group of Prof ... CuNi octahedra and nanocubes were successfully prepared by using borane morpholine as a reducing agent, and then were applied in the aldehyde-alkyne-amine (A3) coupling to explore the facet- and composition- dependent catalytic performance. The Cu50Ni50 nanocubes achieved the highest activity towards A3 coupling reactions ... Am. Chem ... Source ... (noodl....

Lighting the way to advanced drug design (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Nov 2015
(Source. Tokyo Institute of Technology). Tokyo Tech researchers create a new way to make important drug motif. Controlling the shape and arrangement of chemical groups in increasingly complex molecules is incredibly challenging for creators of new drugs ... The search for alternatives ... Figure ... The right combination ... Reference. Authors. ... Photoredox-Catalyzed Stereoselective Conversion of Alkynes into Tetrasubstituted Trifluoromethylated Alkenes....

Atoms Of Fire Series 1 Ep 2 A Taste Of Hydrocarbons

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 26 Oct 2015
Carbon's place on the periodic table. Consolidation of valency. The logic of the alkane family. Alkane isomers. IUPAC name system. A brief look at other hydrocarbon families, alkenes, alkynes. The case of benzene ... ....

Semisynthetic protein nanoreactor for single-molecule chemistry

Edit PNAS 23 Oct 2015
Abstract ... By introducing an amino acid with a terminal alkyne group, we were able to visualize click chemistry at the single-molecule level, which revealed a long-lived (4.5-s) reaction intermediate ... ....

Polymer folding: Pentacyclic geometries click into place (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Aug 2015
(Source. Tokyo Institute of Technology). Polymer folding studies are now attracting interest from geometrical mathematicians and biologists, as well as chemists ... In this latest work he and his colleagues use ESA-CF to form cyclic precursors with strategically located alkyne, alkene and azide groups. The alkyne and azide groups can 'click' together to form a prescribed tetracyclic precursor ... Figure ... Reference Authors. ... Journal. ... DOI . ... (noodl....

New paper describes first-ever synthesis of hyperbranched polymers (University of Notre Dame)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jul 2015
(Source. University of Notre Dame). Haifeng Gao ... Specifically, the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition polymerization of an AB2 trifunctional monomer demonstrates a desirable 'living' chain-growth mechanism with increased molecular weight versus conversion and clean chain extension in repeated monomer additions ... Contact. Haifeng Gao, 574-631-8023, Haifeng.Gao.13@nd.edu distributed by ... (noodl. 29082682) ....

USC Dornsife recruits leading ‘click chemist’ (USC - University of Southern California)

Edit noodls 27 Apr 2015
(Source. USC - University of Southern California) ... He will begin in the Department of Chemistry this fall ... Fokin is best known for co-discovering Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition, recognized in the field as the iconic example of "click chemistry." This term refers to the method of finding the simplest and most reliable chemical reactions to build molecules that can be used in the testing of pharmaceutical drugs....

Alkenes, alkynes and benzene

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 05 Dec 2014
Discover double bonds, triple bonds and cyclic molecules. Explore the chemical structure of alkenes, alkynes and a unique aromatic compound known as benzene. Find out how these families of organic compounds differ, and some of their everyday uses. ....

Atoms Of Fire Series 1 Episode 2 A Taste Of Hydrocarbons

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 03 Nov 2014
Carbon's place on the periodic table. Consolidation of valency. The logic of the alkane family. Alkane isomers. IUPAC name system. A brief look at other hydrocarbon families, alkenes, alkynes. The case of benzene. ....

EPA awards $672,000 to Southern California graduate students through research fellowships (EPA - US Environmental Protection Agency)

Edit noodls 22 Oct 2014
(Source. EPA - US Environmental Protection Agency) EPA awards $672,000 to Southern California graduate students through research fellowships. Release Date. 10/22/2014 ... "Mechanistic Investigations of Copper-catalyzed Azide/Alkyne Cycloadditions."The graduate students from the STAR fellowship program have been involved in critical and cutting edge environmental science and research opportunities for almost two decades ... ### ... (noodl....
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