Organic chemical synthesis has evolved from multistep sequences relying on stoichiometric reagents and protecting-group manipulations to highly efficient, selective and sustainable strategies. Modern ...

In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly ...

A team led by chemist Frank Glorius, a professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster, has ...

Plasma engineers and chemists at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a sustainable way of forming carbon-carbon bonds—the bedrock of all organic compounds—without expensive, rare metals that ...

Oh, organic chemistry reaction mechanisms… They are indeed the bane of many a student’s existence. Yet, they may not be quite so painful if you have the Organic Chemistry! Complete app. This app ...

New pharmaceuticals, cleaner fuels, biodegradable plastics: in order to meet society's needs, chemists have to develop new synthesis methods to obtain new products that do not exist in their natural ...

The invention of a tool capable of unlocking previously impossible organic chemical reactions has opened new pathways in the pharmaceutical industry to create effective drugs more quickly. The ...

A new solar-powered technology is offering a glimpse into a cleaner industrial future. Researchers at the University of ...

As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Levin started sketching out ideas for how to do something no chemist had ever managed before: swapping one of the carbon atoms in ...

New research reveals an innovative method to control and accelerate chemical reactions using an external electric field. The technique revolves around an electrochemical microfluidic reactor, where ...