When developing new reactions, organic chemists aim to construct molecular bonds in ways that have never been seen before. Once they’ve achieved this feat with a single set of reactants, though, their ...

A minimal but general method has been developed for catalysing many different cross-coupling reactions — those in which two chemical fragments are joined. It requires only the two substrate substances ...

Carbon nanotubes have many desirable properties such as a high strength and low weight compared with volume, energy and fuel storage capability, electron emission capability and many advantageous ...

Chemists have developed a new catalyst that accelerates oxidation of C–H bonds selectively in nonaromatic compounds such as terpenes, rather than relying on the inherent properties of the reactant ...

Enzymology is the study of enzymes and enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Enzymes are biological catalysts that accelerate the rate of biological reactions. They can also perform multiple reactions ...

An illustration of the density of a water molecule network (blue surface map and red spheres) near the catalytic site (green sticks), projected on the surface of a plant exo-hydrolase, coloured by ...