Sentences with phrase «of organic chemist»

Such rearrangements are now a staple of organic chemists in both academia and industry for the production of everything from pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals to pheromones and polymers.

At Osaka University, a team of organic chemists has now developed and enhanced a chemical reaction that allows controlled transformations of one of the toughest chemical bonds.

Not exact matches

All Naturepedic natural and organic mattresses have been designed with the help of pediatricians, chemists, and engineers.

As a result of our rigorous quality standards, our partnerships with pediatricians, engineers, and chemists, and our product construction by Amish craftsmen, Naturepedic has become one of the premier organic mattress companies in the world.

In the case of synthetic organic chemist Jeffrey Raber, for example, getting into the industry was personal.

To try to develop a more sensitive probe for isolating individual peptides — short strands of amino acids — from a pool of similar molecules, a team led by chemist Clark Still of Columbia University 4 years ago synthesized small organic compounds that selectively fish out peptides dissolved in chloroform.

Three chemists will share the award for developing chemical reactions that enable the building of complex organic compounds with wide applications in medicine, industry and agriculture

When I was at Bell Labs, I was surrounded by amazing organic chemists who could cook up all kinds of interesting polymers and organic molecules that we could use to build transistors.

Using light to affect the spin rate is a clever approach, says organic chemist Harry Gibson of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

An organic chemist based at Emory University in Atlanta who has helped start several biotech companies, Schinazi has made hundreds of millions of dollars from the drugs, which treat HIV and hepatitis B and help cure hepatitis C.

But James Ferris, a prebiotic chemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., doubts that atmospheric electricity could have been the only source of organic molecules.

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.

Their inspiration was a compound with a molecular core consisting of a cube of eight carbon atoms studded with hydrogens, first synthesized in 1964 by Philip Eaton, an organic chemist at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues.

Cronin says that removing organic chemists from the mix is another one of his goals.

One chemist has a new strategy to scan for life on other worlds: bypass organic chemistry in favour of any molecules too complicated to form spontaneously

«Foreign students or workers in the U.S.A. for the first time are frequently disarmed by the informality of research and teaching laboratories,» says Mel Schiavelli, an organic chemist and founding president of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania.

Today is the birthday of Derek Barton, a British chemist born in 1918 who revolutionized organic chemistry by launching conformational analysis, the study of the three - dimensional structure of complex molecules.

Recent work from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, published in Nature Communications today, bridges the cultural gap between organic chemists and theoreticians that is embodied in the «curly arrow.»

Chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Project have developed a new method to accomplish the programmed synthesis of benzene derivatives with five or six different functional groups that enables access to novel functional organic materials that could not have been reached before.

Electrical engineer Stephen Forrest of the University of Michigan, chemist Mark Thompson of the University of Southern California and their colleagues created the so - called organic LED by combining two layers of phosphorescent diodes — to release green and red wavelength light — and one layer of a fluorescent diode to supply blue wavelength light.

Jeffrey Bode, an organic chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, strives for an environment in which lab members feel that they can discuss all experiments — those that worked and those that didn't.

To find an all - purpose solution, researchers led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, turned to a family of crystalline powders called metal organic frameworks, or MOFs.

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.

Fortunately, AquaPharm's technical director Kenneth Boyd, an organic chemist who gained his marine science expertise at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States, pointed out the RSE / SE fellowships.

By choosing different metals and organics, chemists can dial in the properties of each MOF, controlling what gases bind to them, and how strongly they hold on.

Philip Page, an organic chemist at the University of East Anglia, says he will no longer volunteer to peer - review grant proposals for the EPSRC.

In a recent study published in the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology, physicists and chemists of the University of Münster (Germany) describe an experimental approach to visualising structures of organic molecules with exceptional resolution.

Joseph Sweeney of the University of Reading, an organic chemist who had started a petition against the original EPSRC restrictions, calls the altered policy «not unreasonable.»

Meanwhile, one of us (Weininger) had become a chemistry editor of the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, writing an entry on Paul Bartlett, America's premier 20th century physical organic chemist (and Gortler's Ph.D. supervisor).

Philip Page, an organic chemist at the University of East Anglia who also challenged EPSRC's original policy, still chafes at the modified policy, but he will now continue to peer - review grant proposals for the council.

«We don't think there's any precedent elsewhere,» says Joseph Sweeney of the University of Reading, an organic chemist who signed the online petition and submitted a letter protesting the EPSRC policy to a London newspaper.

A few kilometres away in Sion, high in the Swiss Alps, computational chemist Berend Smit has set up another EPFL centre that develops algorithms for predicting hundreds of thousands of nanoporous zeolites and metal — organic frameworks.

«The situation is very alarming,» says Goverdhan Mehta, an organic chemist and president of the Indian National Science Academy.

«These two elements, namely, the precursor of aryne intermediate and ordinary water enabled a new way to solve a fundamental problem which challenges organic chemists around the world.

Iain Coldham, an organic chemist at the University of Sheffield, takes a firmer position.

is the birthday of Justus Freiherr von Liebig, an organic chemist born in 1803 who is considered the founder of modern agricultural chemistry.

Yesterday was the birthday of Friedrich Kekulé, a German chemist born in 1829 who laid the foundations of structural organic chemistry.

«Being in the Mix Lab (special labs that have researchers from different disciplines mixed together) at ITbM, I was able to talk to an organic chemist, Masakazu Nambo, who suggested the use of triarylmethane compounds for cell division inhibition in plant cells,» she continues.

«Hydroboration gave organic chemists a procedure to make millions of compounds that were more difficult to make otherwise,» Ramachandran said.

(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 had reported a new catalytic reaction in December 2013, to rapidly synthesize triarylmethanes in 3 steps from readily available starting materials, using a palladium catalyst,» says Masakazu Nambo, an organic chemist and another leader of this study.

Alán Aspuru - Guzik, a theoretical chemist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues, used computational models to screen a family of organic molecules and identify those likely to be the best semiconductors.

An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed «gas adsorption crystallography» that provides a new way to study the process by which metal - organic frameworks (MOFs)-- 3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas — are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.

The findings encouraged the chemists to focus on elements at the bottom of the periodic table, an area that is little explored in organic chemistry.

They suspect that the way the olfactory system is organized has little to do with how an organic chemist might organize molecules (for instance, by the number of carbon atoms on each molecule); instead, it more closely resembles the complex way that chemicals are associated in the real world.

«The only thing an organic chemist usually gets to do with a plant is grind it up, find some sort of interesting molecule in there, and then try to make it.

Meyer, a chemist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Energy Frontier Research Center in Solar Fuels, noticed that two separate groups of researchers working on two separate parts of the photosynthetic reaction happened to be using the same class of catalyst — ones with an atom of the metal ruthenium surrounded by organic molecules.

Now a team led by Thomas Carell, an organic chemist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, may have found a method.

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.

About 40 years later a Japanese chemist, Kikunae Ikeda, who trained as an organic chemist in Germany, tried to replicate the success of his German colleagues, especially that of von Liebig, who became wealthy from creating dehydrated beef stock.