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Welcome to the UCL Chemistry Department. Keep up to date with events taking place in and around the department (and in places further away), and the thoughts of our blog contributors.
Chemistry’s New Cluster
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:09:07 +0000
Whilst such titles are normally followed by the exploits of inorganic chemists, 2011-12 sees the dawn of a new computing facility within the department. The new supercomputer, known as the IB-Server is the result of a 7 research group collaboration with resident computing officer Jörg Saßmannshausen. The project, begun in 2010, will allow group members [...]
Read more...The Most Dangerous Molecule in the World
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:22:05 +0000
Last Tuesday brought to the Chemistry department a group of 20 inquisitive Year 9 students and their parents for a CO2 workshop. The afternoon aimed to let these students explore the properties of carbon dioxide inside a lab and inform them how dangerous this molecule can be. Students and parents alike split into groups and [...]
Read more...Chemists Learn a Different Kind of Science
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:00:58 +0000
On a sunny winter’s afternoon a group of UCL’s chemists arrived at the King William IV pub in Leyton for some purely ‘academic pursuits’. We were greeted by a roaring fire and Dr. Louise Price’s other half, who’s enthusiasm for ‘Brodie’s Beers’ led Louise to organising the tour of the brewery for UCL Chemistry’s real [...]
Read more...AkzoNobel UK Science Award
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:24:18 +0000
Two of UCL’s PhD students Aisha Rahman and Marion Brooks-Bartlett were shortlisted to participate in the AkzoNobel (a Dutch chemical company) poster competition last Monday. Up against stiff competition from Cambridge and Bristol universities, they were to present their ideas on “Tomorrow’s Answers Today”, with their entry focusing on hydrogen fuel from photocatalytic water-splitting. The [...]
Read more...Titanium imido complexes on the cover of Org. Biomol. Chem.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:38:11 +0000
Prof Jim Anderson and student Rafael Bou Moreno have got themselves the cover of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry with an article: Synthesis of ureas from titanium imido complexes using CO2 as a C-1 reagent at ambient temperature and pressure DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06576A Nice picture of Battersea power station too.
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