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18.12.2018
 

Due to their powerful tumour-killing effect, metal-based chemotherapies are frequently used in cancer treatment. However, it was hitherto assumed that...

Research
13.12.2018
 

Conventional lithium ion batteries, such as those widely used in smartphones and notebooks, have reached performance limits. Materials chemist Freddy...

Research, Press release
13.12.2018
 

Wolfgang Robien from the Institute of Organic Chemistry will be Guest Editor of the Special Issue of "Molecules" on "NMR Spectroscopy in Natural...

Research
07.11.2018
 

Uni:doc's Fellow Yvonne Kreith now received funding from the Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung of the City of Vienna for her studies on novel cancer drugs....

Research
06.11.2018
 

Chemists at the Faculty of Chemistry and at McGill University have developed a new synthetic approach that allows RNA to be chemically synthesized...

Research
31.10.2018
 

A joint project on heavy metal pollution, headed by Franz Jirsa of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Annemarie Oldewage of the University of...

Research
10.10.2018
 

At the beginning of October Ellen Backus joined as new Professor of Physical Chemistry the Institute of Physical Chemistry. Born in the Netherlands,...

The Faculty, Research, ChemNews_EN
16.08.2018
 

Many natural products and drugs feature a so-called dicarbonyl motif – in certain cases however their preparation poses a challange to organic...

Research, Press release
06.07.2018
 

Chemist Leticia González (Institute of Theoretical Chemistry) is part of the newly launched Priority Programme “Light Controlled Reactivity of Metal...

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