Chemical Asociations

The World Energy Council will tomorrow outline two distinct visions of the future of the global transport sector to 2050, highlighting the impact that policies could have on the future of the transport sector.

The RSC's huge collection of modern, relevant resources is a boon to teachers and students everywhere

The chief executive of the RSC welcomes Professor Sir John Holman’s call for learned societies to overlook not only A-level, but also GCSE exam regulation.

Hundreds and hundreds of entries have provided a wealth of good, bad and downright disgusting cheap meals

How can a vision for a high-tech future British economy be justified?

Academic and industrial researchers have a new option for the publication of their research in 2012, with the launch of the latest RSC journal.

Nuclear energy is a vital part of the UK energy mix - but has its representation in popular culture added to public mistrust?

Walnuts have been crowned king of nuts when it comes to health benefits, according to scientists.

Professor Phillips adds a CBE to the OBE he was awarded in 1999.

Professor Phillips describes the implications of job losses at AstraZeneca

This week's topics:

1. Thiadiazole derivatives may help treat type 2 diabetes
2. Incorporating melanin enhances polymers’ thermal stability
3. Make β-adrenergic blockers in one pot with an organocatalyst
4. Protocol changes improve a drug synthesis scale-up
5. Organic radicals efficiently emit phosphorescence
6. Fine-tune silk by using protic ionic liquids
7. Solid-state metathesis polymerization makes conjugated polymers

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Alcester teenager David Edey collected his larger-than-life gold medal from science minister David Willetts today after defeating hundreds of students from around the world in a global chemistry competition.

The Royal Society of Chemistry celebrates 170 years of publishing today with the awarding of a Chemical Landmark plaque at the learned society’s office in Cambridge.

The funding body has invited the RSC to select representatives from the chemistry community for further engagement

Plans to revitalise the biomedical industry must be matched by significant investment in drug discovery, according to the chief executive of the RSC.

High street coffee chains are unwittingly putting pregnant women at risk due to huge variations in their caffeine content.

This week's topics:

• These amphiphilic phospholes are mesomorphic and luminescent
• Prepare antiaromatic dications without magic acid
• Use design of experiments to improve a reaction workup
• Household chemicals can destroy chemical warfare agents
• Use atomic force microscopy to study block copolymer surfaces
• Hydrophosphonate olefins to prepare Z-selective Wittig reagents
• Make supramolecular networks from ternary copolymer blends

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This week's topics:

1. Couple CO2 and an epoxide to make poly(indenecarbonate)
2. Amphoteric polymers respond to physiological changes
3. Modified polydopamine coatings carry a one–two punch
4. Some of Alfred Werner’s crystal samples show chirality
5. Change a precursor, use cross-coupling to shorten a synthesis
6. Use fluorinated aziridines to make asymmetric 1,3-oxazolidines
7. These compounds fluoresce efficiently in the crystalline state

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The new department will establish a challenging research-led MChem degree programme

Robert Parker and David Phillips's letter to David Delpy on the EPSRC Shaping Capability Programme