Tetra-substituted alkenes – carbon–carbon double bonds surrounded by four different chemical groups – are a surprisingly ...

A team of chemists and astronomers have made a discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever detected in ...

As the former technical director for the US subsidiary of Rhône-Poulenc’s successful venture to bring a rare earth purification plant to the US, I support the conclusion that using current well ...

Personal space chemistry suppressed by perfume and body lotion indoors New study shows that the human oxidation field generated by people indoors is substantially influenced by personal care ...

A well-established chemistry application for neural networks is planning synthetic routes in organic chemistry. AiZynthFinder, for example, uses such a network to guide searches for the most ...

Are the additives in our food quietly conspiring against our health? A new French study dives into the tangled web of food additives, not as individual villains, but at their gang affiliations. Do ...

This research demonstrates an innovative chemical switching system capable of regulating self-assembly in metal–organic cages with precision. Utilizing atropisomers of a macrocycle ligand (CP2), the ...

Chemical modification of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) at the solid–liquid interface can effectively impart SAMs with desired functions on demand. However, appropriate methods to monitor organic ...

Herein, we described the addition reactions of sulfur-containing reagents (sodium sulfinates, dithiosulfonates) with α-trifluoromethyl alkenes under visible light. A series of trifluoromethyl ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.