Chemical Synthesis

Chemical Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogues Chemical Synthesis of Nucleoside Analogues

Chemical Synthesis of Oligonucleotides

It can fairly be said that synthetic oligonucleotides are the fuel that drives the engine of molecular biology. Nearly every technique in use today in molecular biology employs chemically synthesized DNAs or RNAs. This includes PCR, Real-Time PCR, DNA sequencing, site directed mutagenesis, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) assays, microarrays, and the rapidly expanding world of small RNAs. U...

Ethics of Chemical Synthesis

Unlike other branches of science, the scientific products of synthetic chemistry are not only ideas but also new substances that change our material world, for the benefit or harm of living beings. This paper provides for the first time a systematical analysis of moral issues arising from chemical synthesis, based on concepts of responsibility and general morality. Topics include the questionin...

Chemical synthesis of proteins.

Proteins have become accessible targets for chemical synthesis. The basic strategy is to use native chemical ligation, Staudinger ligation, or other orthogonal chemical reactions to couple synthetic peptides. The ligation reactions are compatible with a variety of solvents and proceed in solution or on a solid support. Chemical synthesis enables a level of control on protein composition that gr...

Chemical synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles.

Recent advances in the synthesis of various magnetic nanoparticles using colloidal chemical approaches are reviewed. Typically, these approaches involve either rapid injection of reagents into hot surfactant solution followed by aging at high temperature, or the mixing of reagents at a low temperature and slow heating under controlled conditions. Spherical cobalt nanoparticles with various crys...