{"id":2402,"date":"2008-06-30T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/06\/nchem-research-highlights-total-synthesis-multimetallic-complexes-and-photoresponsive-elastomers.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:14:20","slug":"nchem_research_highlights_tota_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/06\/nchem_research_highlights_tota_1.html","title":{"rendered":"NChem Research Highlights: total synthesis, multimetallic complexes, and photoresponsive elastomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for another batch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/archive\/reshighlts_current_archive.html\">research highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First up, fresh back from his trip to Korea, Steve writes about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0608\/full\/nchem.28.html\">counterintuitive approach<\/a> to creating stereocentres: by destroying them first!<\/p>\n<p>Second, the story of greedy metal complexes. Neil tackles the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0608\/full\/nchem.30.html\">synthesis<\/a> of a series of heteromultimetallic complexes that contain up to 7 (that\u2019s <span class=\"caps\">SEVEN<\/span>!!) different metal atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I get to grips with a motor driven by a light-sensitive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0608\/full\/nchem.29.html\">elastomeric belt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/food-recipes\/news\/20080626\/red-wine-may-make-meat-meals-healthier?src=RSS_PUBLIC\">news<\/a> that wine-lovers across the world can be happy about (I\u2019m off to Napa, California, in a couple of weeks so I\u2019m happy). Eating meat is healthier with a glass of wine than without (maybe it\u2019s not that simple but that\u2019s how I\u2019m going to understand it!). The original paper can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/cgi-bin\/abstract.cgi\/jafcau\/asap\/abs\/jf703700d.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gav<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Armstrong (Associate Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/index.html\">Nature Chemistry<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for another batch of research highlights.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/06\/nchem_research_highlights_tota_1.html#wpn-more-2402\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/06\/nchem_research_highlights_tota_1.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gavin-armstrong","category-nchem-research-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}