Click chemistry is a strategy for building molecules by snapping together two complementary chemical handles in a single, dependable step. Rather than relying on long multi-step syntheses, it uses a ...

Radicals, atoms or molecules that readily react with other substances to form new bonds, are useful tools for building complex substances such as pharmaceuticals. But even when a radical is generated ...

A ring of beads connected to tentacles A modeling study shows how chemical reactions can stimulate motion in simple systems, like the structure here—made of enzyme coated beads connected to ...

Do Hyun Ryu's research team in the Department of Chemistry at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed two new asymmetric catalytic methods for the precise synthesis of complex molecules using ...

The molecular culprit behind harmful algal blooms and some groundwater contamination is the same thing that has kept ...

Before there was Earth, there was chemistry. In the unimaginable cold, dark clouds where stars and planets are born, carbon ...

Using an advanced technique, scientists have demonstrated that a chemical reaction powered by light takes place ten thousand times faster at the air-water interface -- what we usually call the water ...

Chemists have long wrestled with a stubborn problem in heterogeneous catalysis: palladium nanoparticles, among the most versatile tools for forging carbon-carbon bonds, have an unfortunate tendency to ...

I read with considerable interest the editorial “ ‘No Excuses’ for the Future of Green Chemistry” (C&EN, June 2/9, 2025, page 2) and the first installment of the new column on green chemistry, “The ...

A foundational chemistry concept found in textbooks for almost 100 years may have been taught incorrectly. Researchers say ...