Amines are used widely in bioactive molecules, drugs, and various organic materials, and preparing them is one of the most important tasks
for synthetic chemists in both academia and industry.
Not exact matches
In the case of
synthetic organic
chemist Jeffrey Raber,
for example, getting into the industry was personal.
While studying
synthetic organic chemistry
for his Master's, he met a food scientist who told him about how cherished
chemists are in the food industry, where «you can work on products that people can feel, see, and touch,» he recounts.
As well as analytical and computational
chemists, the company, with a work force of over 10,000, looks
for synthetic organic
chemists, medicinal
chemists, and combinatorial
chemists to join their research teams.
Researchers in the Rice lab of
chemist and bioengineer Jeffrey Hartgerink had just such an experience with the hydrogels they developed as a
synthetic scaffold to deliver drugs and encourage the growth of cells and blood vessels
for new tissue.
Washington University
chemist Karen L. Wooley created Knedels,
synthetic nanometric cagelike polymer structures that mimic viruses and could be developed into a safer delivery system
for gene therapy.
What industrial
chemists did know was that by tinkering with a highly reactive molecule called a phenol they were able to devise countless
synthetic chemicals
for use in new materials.
The substances introduced by Rice
synthetic organic
chemist K.C. Nicolaou are similar in their cancer - fighting mechanism to paclitaxel, the drug
for which he is best - known, but have superior properties.
(The impact of the cuts to EPSRC is also highlighted by a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron in which more than 100 senior
chemists, including six Nobel laureates, criticize the council's plans to reduce research funding
for synthetic organic chemistry.)
«We look
for a cross-discipline team of material scientists,
synthetic chemists, modellers and experts in fruit physiology and microbiology, many of them at PhD level,» she says.
«We showed how the metal compound works and how it facilitates proton movement,» said Dr. Liezel Labios, a
synthetic organometallic
chemist who led the experiments as a postdoctoral associate in the Center
for Molecular Electrocatalysis, an Energy Frontier Research Center led by PNNL.
He graduated as a biological
chemist (Kent, UK) and studied
for PhD in
synthetic organic chemistry (Exeter, UK).
«These encouraging results should serve as a spark
for another advancement in organic synthesis,» says K. C. Nicolaou, a
synthetic chemist at Rice University, adding that Chematica could increase speed and productivity in chemistry labs, especially if paired with automated synthesis machines.
I spent a few minutes Wednesday with F. Sherwood Rowland, the atmospheric
chemist from the University of California, Irvine, who shared a Nobel Prize
for his work revealing the threat to the ozone layer from CFC's and similar
synthetic chemicals.
95 The case
for crop - based biofuels was further undermined when a team led by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize — winning
chemist at the Max Planck Institute
for Chemistry in Germany, concluded that emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the
synthetic nitrogen fertilizer used to grow crops such as corn and rapeseed
for biofuel production can negate any net reductions of CO2 emissions from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels, thus making biofuels a threat to climate stability.
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