ACS Highlights

Nanotubes as Accelerants

ACS Nano
April 2008

Synthetic nanoscale motors are much slower than their biological counterparts, but incorporating carbon nanotubes into the platinum component of asymmetric metal nanowire motors speeds them up considerably.

Another Microwave Success

Journal of Organic Chemistry
April 2008

The two-step synthesis of β-aminoarylphosphines—promising bidentate ligands for metal centers—currently requires heating at high temperatures for ~10 days. This microwave-assisted method takes only 3 h.

Sugars Imaged In Live Animals

Chemical and Engineering News
May 5, 2008

The first technique for imaging carbohydrates as they are produced on cell surfaces of live animals has been developed by glycobiology specialist Carolyn R. Bertozzi and coworkers at the University of California, Berkeley.

Up by the Bootstraps

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
April 2008

The authors demonstrate a bootstrap-based consensus scoring method that improves the performance of the scoring function in a protein–ligand docking program used for lead compound discovery.

Visualizing C. elegans Metabolism

ACS Chemical Biology
April 2008

Consumption of fluorescently tagged natural products helps to reveal the sensory mechanisms of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dauer-state–inducing products appear to accumulate in the organism’s pharynx.

AlGaN2 Semiconductors

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
April 2008

The authors use first-principles calculations to show that four types of single-walled AlGaN2 nanotubes are semiconductors with band structures that depend on their chirality and size.

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