ACS Highlights

Nanotube Harvest

ACS Nano
December 2008

Some carbon nanotubes are harvested from “forests” grown by water-assisted chemical vapor deposition from engineered catalysts.

Inverted Base Pair Recognition

Journal of Organic Chemistry
December 2008

Here’s a general synthesis of heterocyclic ethenyl C-nucleosides that can recognize inverted base pairs in a DNA triple helix. This may be a tool for gene suppression therapy.

Baring the Bones

Analytical Chemistry
December 2008

Combining three analytical methods allowed researchers to verify that the patina on a 14th-century Moorish wall in Granada, Spain, was made from CaCO3 and powdered burnt animal bones.

Biological Antifreeze

Biomacromolecules
December 2008

Synthetic water-soluble polymers with hydroxyl-containing side chains show biological antifreeze properties and may eventually be used to improve frozen food texture.

Frankincense and Myrrh

C&EN
December 22, 2008

What is that stuff? Culture and chemistry meet in fragrant plant-based incense.

Palladium Allenylidene Complexes

Organometallics
December 2008

Allenylidene complexes of chromium, tungsten, and manganese were reported more than 30 years ago. Now the first stable palladium allenylidene complexes have been made.

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