{"id":2481,"date":"2008-10-13T04:43:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T04:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/10\/nchem-research-highlights-strain-mof-tags-and-a-certain-prize.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:09:07","slug":"nchem_research_highlights_stra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/10\/nchem_research_highlights_stra.html","title":{"rendered":"NChem Research Highlights: Strain, MOF tags and a certain prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hammer<\/a><\/del> Research Highlight<\/a> time.<\/p>\n

Chemists love stressed and strained molecules – this must be true because Roald Hoffman<\/a> and Philip Ball<\/a> say so. Karl Irikura from NIST<\/span> predicts that adamantane (imagine 4 fused cyclohexanes, or just look at the picture in the article!) can be stable with one of the hydrogen atoms<\/a> pointing into<\/strong> the cage. He doesn’t predict how to make it though, so over to the synthesis guys…<\/p>\n

Our new editor, Anne<\/a> – the final piece in the NChem team jigsaw<\/a> – writes about ‘tagging’ metal\u2013organic framework<\/a> materials so their volume can be fine tuned.<\/p>\n

Our third one this week covers a certain prize<\/a> you might have noticed being awarded last week. Well done to Stu for writing the piece in record time! On quite a sobering note, read about what Douglas Prasher<\/a> is up to now – he isolated the gene behind GFP<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And finally…Martyn Poliakoff talks about the Nobel Prize on the Periodic Table of Videos<\/a>. Want to be a science video star yourself? Why not enter the Science Dance Contest<\/a> – all you have to do is interpret your PhD through the medium of dance! I can’t wait to see what chemistry looks like in dance format…<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n

Neil Withers (Associate Editor, Nature Chemistry<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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