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Joined March 2009

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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. Chemist, educator & author Stephen Mansell will share the untold stories of boron in a free webinar:
Boron: in search of the real fifth element
From chemistryworld.com
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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:
30 US universities ordered to audit foreign research partnerships
From chemistryworld.com
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Aug 20
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…
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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…
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‘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?’
Do isolated molecules have structure?
From chemistryworld.com