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Asymmetric Organocatalysis

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been won by two organic chemists who developed asymmetric organocatalysis more than two decades ago by David MacMillan of Princeton University,...

October 7, 2021

Thallium

Thallium is a metallic chemical element that does not freely occur in nature. It is a grey colored metal that is highly toxic and has been behind numerous...

March 26, 2021

Camptothecin

Camptothecin is an alkaloid extracted from Nothapodytes nimmoniana, an endangered plant species in India. It is also extracted from the Camptotheca acuminate, a tree species found in China....

February 25, 2021

Einsteinium

Einsteinium is the element 99 in the periodic table of elements. It was discovered in 1952 in the remnants of the ‘Ivy Mike’ thermonuclear device- the first hydrogen...

February 22, 2021

Sodium hypochlorite

Sodium hypochlorite is a compound used for large scale water purification, odour removal, disinfection and bleaching. It has the chemical formula of NaClO. In its anhydrous form, the...

February 8, 2021

ARI Microreactor

Scientists at the Agharkar Research Institute have developed a microreactor for synthesis of large quantities of uniformly sized nanoparticles for biomedical application. Microreactor Microreactor is a device with...

April 23, 2020

Fish Gill-based Electro-catalyst

Scientists at INST have developed a low cost, bio-inspired electro-catalyst from fish gills for use in energy conversion devices. Electro-catalyst Catalyst is a compound that alters the rate...

April 22, 2020

Nobel Prize 2019: Chemistry

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries. These three scientists...

October 9, 2019

Nobel Prize 2019: Chemistry

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries. These three scientists...

October 9, 2019

Haber–Bosch Process

The Haber–Bosch process is a chemical method used for synthesising ammonia (NH₃) directly from nitrogen (N₂) and hydrogen (H₂) gases under high temperature and pressure in the presence...

August 3, 2019

Actinium

Actinium is a rare, silvery-white, radioactive metal belonging to the actinide series of the periodic table, with the chemical symbol Ac and atomic number 89. It was the...

June 19, 2019

Silver

Silver is a lustrous, white metallic element known for its high electrical and thermal conductivity, ductility, and reflectivity. Represented by the chemical symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum)...

June 19, 2019

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