Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Adventures in the Anthropocene
Release Date: 02/12/2016
Chemistry World Podcast
Welcome to the first episode of our latest podcast series, The chemical breakdown. Each week, we’ll dive deeper into two stories we've covered here at Chemistry World. We’ll provide insight into the facts, why you should care, and what it means for the chemistry community. We’ll also give you that week’s headlines to keep you up to date on what’s happening in the chemistry community. And finally, we’ll end each episode with a brief section on what was happening this week in chemistry history. This week, we discuss total synthesis and halogen-bond catalysis with Jennifer...
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