Sentences with phrase «organic chemists in»

The organic chemists in the group then synthesized the disaccharide moiety on the terminus of arabinogalactan.

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.

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.

I used to be an organic chemist in the last millennium who reached a tipping point in 2000 and was irreversibly transformed to a computer specialist.

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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

Chalfie and Tsien, along with Osama Shimomura, an organic chemist and marine biologist, had won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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.

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.

Chemists tend to share an ability to sift, correlate, evaluate, and manipulate nonquantitative data and solve problems where there is incomplete information, particularly for those with a background in inorganic, organic, and biochemistry, he adds.

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.

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.

In the 1950s, chemists at DuPont found that when they added metals such as molybdenum to organic compounds such as ethylene and propene, it caused the reactants to change shape.

Volcanic plumes were ideal crucibles for sparking stable nitrogen to form reactive compounds that led to the first organic molecules, chemists report in the 15 August Geophysical Research Letters.

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.»

Thinking back to her job hunt, Johnson recalls that «when I was applying for positions, there just weren't that many advertised in industry for organic chemists.

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.

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.

An organic chemist who specializesin body odor, Preti is well versed on the glands in the humanarmpit — not to mention those in the mouth, breasts, crotch, andfeet — that secrete chemicals that vaporize readily.

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.

Hodgkin began investigating sterols in 1932, when x-rays were used only to confirm what organic chemists already knew about a chemical structure.

It turns out the curious practice has a basis in science: Recent research on the amphibians» skin secretions led by Moscow State University organic chemist A.T. Lebedev shows they're loaded with peptides, antimicrobial compounds as potent against Salmonella and Staphylococcus bacteria as prescription antibiotics.

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.

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 resolutioIn 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 resolutioin 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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

The fungicide explosion prompted Kathryn Kuivila, an environmental organic chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, to see if fungicides were escaping farms and winding up in nearby streams.

Waka Nakanishi, an organic chemist at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, has designed a nanocar with two sets of «flaps» that are intended to flutter like butterfly wings when the molecule is energized by the STM tip.

Howard J. Wilk is a long - term unemployed synthetic organic chemist living in Philadelphia.

Past examples of magnetic organic materials were either unstable in air or were mostly made of metal, making them unsuitable for linking together into a plastic, says chemist Robin Hicks of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, lead author of the study reporting the find in this week's Nature.

A molecular biologist is not going to become an organic chemist, but the necessity of working in a data - rich environment does force scientists to work outside of their usual realm and fosters a more global perspective.

Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have devised a safer, more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient water - based system for the synthesis of organic compounds typically used in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, cosmetics, plastics, textiles and household chemicals.

Chemists often use nucleophilic additions in organic synthesis to turn molecules with double bonds into more functionalised compounds.