Chemical & Engineering News: JACS In C&EN

Silencing Bacterial Communications

nobody@acs.org("Sarah Webb") — 20 May 2013 18:23:37 +0000

Antibiotics: New highly active inhibitors of quorum sensing show promise as agents against staph infections

MRI Contrast Agent May Detect A Harbinger Of Cancer Drug Resistance

nobody@acs.org("Carmen Drahl") — 13 May 2013 05:03:55 +0000

If new technique works in patients it could aid personalized medicine efforts

Cell Membrane Mystery

nobody@acs.org("Celia Henry Arnaud") — 29 Apr 2013 05:02:24 +0000

ACS Meeting News: Lipids may not be arranged the way scientists thought, imaging mass spec data suggest

Deciphering Ordered But Noncrystalline Structures

nobody@acs.org("Jyllian Kemsley") — 29 Apr 2013 05:02:22 +0000

Method combines X-ray diffraction, NMR, and modeling to pick out structures that are tough to determine

Map Charts Chemical Space

nobody@acs.org("Stu Borman") — 29 Apr 2013 05:02:00 +0000

Mathematical algorithm capable of generating virtual molecules could help researchers discover new drugs and materials

Cross-Linking Technique Could Complement Peptide Stapling

nobody@acs.org("Carmen Drahl") — 29 Apr 2013 05:02:00 +0000

Method stabilizes proteins without the need for metal catalysts or nonnatural amino acids

Putting Stem Cells In Their Place

nobody@acs.org("Laura Cassiday") — 25 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Regenerative Medicine: Polymer coating could help stem cells target inflamed blood vessels to regrow healthy tissue

Carbonyl Anion Reaction Builds Chiral Hindered Amino Acid Derivatives

nobody@acs.org("Carmen Drahl") — 22 Apr 2013 05:02:43 +0000

Important motif in pharmaceuticals falls to rare type of chemistry

Microfluidic Devices Capture Tumor Cells

nobody@acs.org("Celia Henry Arnaud") — 15 Apr 2013 05:02:00 +0000

Tools that run fluids through tiny channels detect scarce circulating tumor cells, a tactic that could aid cancer patients

Light-Driven Reaction Modifies Double Bonds With Unconventional Selectivity

nobody@acs.org("Carmen Drahl") — 11 Apr 2013 21:45:00 +0000

ACS Meeting News: Catalyst system breaks a classic rule of organic chemistry

Light-Driven Reaction Modifies Double Bonds With Unconventional Selectivity

nobody@acs.org("Carmen Drahl") — 08 Apr 2013 12:31:00 +0000

ACS Meeting News: Catalyst system breaks a classic rule of organic chemistry

New Chemistry Could Help Peer Inside Cells

nobody@acs.org("Carmen Drahl") — 08 Apr 2013 05:04:47 +0000

Biochemical monitoring strategy keeps tabs on the activity of the cancer drug Taxol

Bringing Ancient Proteins To Life

nobody@acs.org("Celia Henry Arnaud") — 08 Apr 2013 05:03:57 +0000

Scientists resurrect long-gone cellular workhorses to study evolution and engineer new versions of proteins

Fifty Years Of Fun With Chemistry

nobody@acs.org("") — 08 Apr 2013 05:03:00 +0000

Chemistry Aficionado And Lifelong Learner

nobody@acs.org("Mitch Jacoby") — 08 Apr 2013 05:03:00 +0000

Priestley Medalist Peter J. Stang emerged from adversity to catalyze advances in chemistry and serve as one of the field’s leading statesmen

Elimination Reaction Cooks Up Chiral Allenes

nobody@acs.org("Carmen Drahl") — 01 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0000

'Unwanted' chemistry proves useful for making possible drug precursors

Golden Ring With Aesthetic Appeal

nobody@acs.org("Stephen K. Ritter") — 01 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0000

Uniquely structured molecular gold-carbon complex could lead to improved organic group transfer reagents for catalysis

Nixing Nitric Oxide

nobody@acs.org("Stephen K. Ritter") — 29 Mar 2013 13:06:00 +0000

Bioinorganic Chemistry: Reductase enzyme mimic provides insight on how pathogenic bacteria thwart NO attack

Nanocalipers Get A Grip On Nanotubes

nobody@acs.org("Bethany Halford") — 25 Mar 2013 05:04:03 +0000

Diporphyrin molecule discriminates among single-walled carbon nanotubes on the basis of diameter and other physical features

Hydrogels Take Multiple Shapes

nobody@acs.org("Lauren K. Wolf") — 22 Mar 2013 13:51:03 +0000

Materials: Gel sheets adopt 3-D forms in response to various stimuli

Magnetic Superatoms

nobody@acs.org("Jyllian Kemsley") — 18 Mar 2013 05:03:32 +0000

Vanadium-sodium clusters with properties that mimic individual atoms could find use in spintronic devices

Training Immune Cells

nobody@acs.org("Journal News and Community") — 18 Mar 2013 05:03:29 +0000

Researchers trap T cells in emulsion droplets in hopes of reprogramming them to attack new disease targets

In Search Of Good Recipes

nobody@acs.org("A. Maureen Rouhi") — 18 Mar 2013 05:03:24 +0000

Bold Territory For Polymers

nobody@acs.org("Stephen K. Ritter") — 15 Mar 2013 19:35:48 +0000

Materials Science: Chemists push the bounds of what’s structurally possible in polymer architectures

Synthetic Shortcut To Erythromycin Precursor

nobody@acs.org("Stu Borman") — 15 Mar 2013 13:19:00 +0000

Organic Synthesis: Recently developed reactions shorten path to 6-deoxyerythronolide B

Lewis Acid-Base Pair Assists Enzyme Mimic

nobody@acs.org("Stephen K. Ritter") — 11 Mar 2013 05:01:23 +0000

Catalyst ligand’s design emulates the secondary-level binding of a metalloenzyme’s active site

One-Electron Bond Caught In A Structure

nobody@acs.org("Stephen K. Ritter") — 11 Mar 2013 05:01:21 +0000

Study of a cagelike copper-boron complex provides the first structural snapshot of a molecule with a one-electron sigma-bond

Cycloaddition Done By Diols

nobody@acs.org("Bethany Halford") — 11 Mar 2013 05:01:18 +0000

Redox-triggered coupling reaction could be used to make commodity chemicals

Training Immune Cells To Combat Disease

nobody@acs.org("Katherine Bourzac") — 05 Mar 2013 14:45:00 +0000

Immunology: Researchers trap immune cells in droplets of water in oil in hopes of reprogramming them

Elusive Alkynylation Achieved

nobody@acs.org("Bethany Halford") — 04 Mar 2013 06:03:33 +0000

Palladium-catalyzed reaction appends alkynes to C–H bonds at sp3 carbon centers for the first time

Composite Catalyst For Chiral Synthesis

nobody@acs.org("Mitch Jacoby") — 04 Mar 2013 06:03:30 +0000

Catalytic metal particles embedded in monolayers of chiral molecules yield solid catalysts that facilitate enantioselective reactions

Toward Silicon Metathesis

nobody@acs.org("Stephen K. Ritter") — 01 Mar 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Organometallics: Chemists achieve key steps in quest for a silicon version of classic synthesis

Select Nanocrystal Facets Activate Oxygen

nobody@acs.org("Mitch Jacoby") — 25 Feb 2013 06:03:27 +0000

Study finds Pd {100} facets selectively induce oxygen electronic excitation and subsequent oxidation reactions

Fluorine Chemistry Continues Apace

nobody@acs.org("Stephen K. Ritter") — 25 Feb 2013 06:03:15 +0000

Researchers stay on a hot streak creating simpler and more efficient reactions for making drugs and pesticides