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Synthesis at the touch of a button
In many chemical laboratories, routine chemical syntheses are performed on a daily basis, which takes up a lot of time. ETH spin-off Synple Chem wants to simplify this with a device that is almost as easy to use as a capsule coffee machine.
A greener generation of metal hydrides to produce formic acid
Researchers led by Victor Mougel developed an electrocatalytic method that can produce metal hydrides more cleanly and efficiently. The researchers used the hydrides to reduce carbon dioxide to formic acid, one of the most interesting commodity chemicals. The study was recently published in Nature.
Gisbert Schneider receives Ernst Schering Prize
The Ernst Schering Foundation honors Gisbert Schneider with the Ernst Schering Prize 2022 for his pioneering work in the field of AI-assisted drug discovery. Through his visionary research, Gisbert Schneider enabled the transfer of this new approach to industrial application. As a result, potential active substances are now identified more quickly worldwide and examined for potential side effects.
Resurrecting Prelog's spirobifluorene samples for new research
Nobel laureate Vladimir Prelog investigated the characteristics of organic molecules, e.g. spirobifluorenes. Now two of his old samples may serve as a reference for new spirofluorene research, but will this work? Prof. Jay Siegel & Dr. Tomas Fiala (LOC) will find out in this video.
Faster drug screening
Drug design is time-consuming and expensive. Identifying a promising starting molecule – a ligand – is key in the design process. A new characterisation method based on NMR spectroscopy probes the interaction of the ligand with its intended target quickly and reliably.