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Molecule of the Week (03)
Submitted by on September 12, 2008 – 11:41 am | No Comment
Molecule of the Week (03)

The fluorescing characteristic of a Xanthene-based Zinc (II) complex chemosensor has been the recent study at Kyoto University (Ojida, Akio; Takashima, Ippei; Kohira, Takahiro; Hamachi, Itaru. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 10.1021, p12095-12101) A chemosensor …

Molecule of the Week (02)
Submitted by on September 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm | No Comment
Molecule of the Week (02)

Like the molecule for week 1, I chose this just because I think it’s pretty cool. Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (Sessler, J.L.; Kim, S.K.; Gross, D.E.; Lee, C.; Kim, J.S.; …

Molecule of the Week (01)
Submitted by on August 30, 2008 – 8:06 pm | No Comment
Molecule of the Week (01)

The first ‘Molecule of the Week’ (MotW) is a gold(I) catenane published in the current issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Goldup, S.M.; Leigh, D.A.; Lusby, P.J.; McBurney, R.T.; Slawin, A.M.Z. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. …