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Bethany Halford

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Bethany Halford

    Chemists find a safer way to create carbenes (opens the original)

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    Chemists find a safer way to create carbenes Alkylthianthrenium salts can be shaken up in a ball mill on a decagram scale The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. There’s now a safer way to make cyclopropanes—three-carbon rings—thanks to a new reaction that generates carbenes from alkylthianthrenium salts. Carbenes react with double bonds to create cyclopropanes, but previous methods of gen

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Bethany Halford

    Skeletal-editing ‘dream’ realized (opens the original)

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    Second-generation C-to-N swap turns the first generation’s failure into a feature The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. A new atom-swapping reaction gives chemists a versatile tool for replacing aromatic carbons with nitrogen in complex molecules. The atomic switcheroo will help drugmakers explore how pharmaceutical leads and natural products respond to tiny structural tweaks known as sk

  3. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Bethany Halford

    Appel reaction can finally fluorinate (opens the original)

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    The classic alkyl halide–making reaction can, at long last, be used to generate alkyl fluorides A version of this story appeared in Volume 104, Issue 9 The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. Chemists have a new tool that could make it safer to synthesize fluorinated pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials. The transformation is a riff on the Appel reaction, which turns alcohols into

  4. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Bethany Halford

    The covalent drug arsenal gets a new warhead (opens the original)

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    The covalent drug arsenal gets a new warhead A mild, modular approach to adding bicyclobutanes could bring more selectivity to these therapies A version of this story appeared in Volume 104, Issue 9 The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. A new platform that adds bicyclobutanes to amines could be used to create covalent drugs that have fewer side effects (Science 2026, DOI: 10.1126/science

  5. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Bethany Halford

    Reaction rounds up atoms into unusual cyclic compounds (opens the original)

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    Reaction rounds up atoms into unusual cyclic compounds Chiral aromatic heterocycles could be novel motifs in drug candidates The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. Sulfonimidamides have become popular in the past decade or so as chemists explore novel motifs for drug candidates. They feature a central sulfur atom with a double bond to oxygen, a double bond to nitrogen, a single bond to an

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