From structure confirmation to methodology improvements, making complex natural products has driven innovation in organic ...

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a single-atom photocatalytic strategy that enables ...

Professor Joongoo Kang's team from the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST and Professor Sohee Jeong's team from the ...

As an engineering plastic having high transparency and impact resistance, polycarbonate (PC) is employed in eyeglass lenses, camera lenses, DVDs, automobile headlights and bulletproof glass. The ...

Researchers use AI to visualize reaction pathways of colloidal quantum dots as subway maps, clarifying synthesis and speeding ...

NH 3 is the second largest chemical produced in the world and nearly 80% of produced NH 3 is employed in fertilizer synthesis. Meanwhile, NH 3 is an indispensable raw material for manufacturing nitric ...

When Clay Bennett started his postdoctoral stint in 2005, he thought—“naively,” he admits—that he would spend just a couple of months preparing a few grams of an oligosaccharide before using the ...

With artificial intelligence, scientists can design increasingly complex small molecule structures. Automation is critical for transforming these compounds from designs on a screen into actual ...

Indoles abound in bioactive molecules. They make up the molecular core of the essential amino acid tryptophan, the sleep-inducing supplement melatonin, and the psychedelic compound psilocybin.

Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...