Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing ...

The method has applications in organic chemistry, particularly within the pharmaceutical industry. A team of scientists has ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max ...

A team of Penn State researchers has found that a fundamental reaction in transition metal chemistry, called oxidative addition, can follow a different path to achieve the same ends.

New play in transition metal chemistry playbook revealed. New research shows that net oxidative addition can occur via a ...

Nature Chemistry - The vast number of known organic compounds and the reactions that connect them together can be thought of as a complex network. Analysing the organic chemistry universe in this ...

Astronomers have detected a variety of complex organic molecules (COMs) in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, offering compelling new clues about the chemical roots of life. Using the ...

Controlling regioselectivity remains one of the major challenges in hydrocyanation. When an unsymmetrical alkyne undergoes ...

The University of California, Santa Barbara, chemist started in 2008 by demonstrating micellar chemistry is compatible with olefin cross-metathesis reactions, which are typically performed in an ...

Organic chemistry students and bench chemists alike rely on the Grignard reaction, a relatively simple way to make carbon-carbon bonds. But even though the reaction was first described 120 years ...

But cold or not, complex chemistry seems to be happening in stellar nurseries. TMC-1, in particular, contains surprising concentrations of relatively large organic molecules with names like ...