You are probably familiar with boron as Pyrex, found in labs & kitchens around the world but its influence spreads far beyond the confines of our flasks.
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- The US Department of War has ordered major universities including Harvard and MIT to audit and report on their international research collaborations by the end of the month, or they risk losing federal funding. Rebecca Trager reports:
- Share your thoughts underneath this post or head over to the article’s comment section here 👇 chemistryworld.com/opinion/chemis…In the latest from Derek Lowe, he breaks down the different types of chemists we might encounter in and out of the lab. Have a read and let us know: which subspecies of chemist do you most strongly identify with? @RoySocChem @IUPAC chemistryworld.com/opinion/chemis…
- Congqing Zhu’s team have pinched a uranium ion between two cobalt ions, which are stabilised by a phosphorus-containing ligand, to create a complex with a total of 10 bonds across the three metal atoms. The complex may offer intriguing reactivity: chemistryworld.com/news/uranium-c…
- ‘As one of the central properties to understanding natural phenomena, one that has been pictorially represented like no other, in research & educational settings, no one really questions that molecules have structure. But maybe they should?’
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