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• NChem Research Highlights: cell metabolites, chocolate, and hydrogenation catalysis

  Apologies to all those who logged in on Friday to read the witty and humorous NChem research highlight update but (for various reasons) they will now...

• Reactions – Harry Kroto

  1. What made you want to be a chemist? I was good at science and maths, art and tennis but had to get a job, and science in the 60s was a much better bet that art...

• Sugar Daddy: The importance of being... there

  There seems to be this mindset among scientists, particularly chemists, that what we do is noble and somehow above the fray. Perhaps it comes from our...

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