Purdue chemist Christopher Uyeda is currently tackling a complex challenge in medical chemistry, one that could allow for faster manufacturing of expensive medications. Uyeda’s work was recently ...

An artist’s rendition of the new catalytic method for asymmetric fragmentation of cyclopropanes. (Credit: YAP Co., Ltd.) An organic catalyst offers chemists precise control over a vital step in ...

A German research team has investigated the use of zeotropic fluid mixtures as the working fluid in high-temperature heat pumps (HTHP). Zeotropic mixtures consist of two or more fluids with varying ...

Despite being some of the most versatile building blocks in organic chemistry, compounds called carbenes can be too hot to handle. Despite being some of the most versatile building blocks in organic ...

Cyclopropane-fused lactones are highly desirable in drug and natural products synthesis. Herein, we report on a photochemical, chemoselective reaction of aryldiazoacetates with allylic alcohols that ...

Researchers have developed a safer method to manipulate highly reactive carbene molecules, according to a study published in Science. The team created catalysts using affordable, Earth-abundant metals ...

As effective as fossil fuels may be, their impact on the planet cannot be overstated. Now researchers at Berkeley Lab have coaxed bacteria into directly producing a new biofuel with an energy density ...

Converting petroleum into fuels involves crude chemistry first invented by humans in the 1800s. Meanwhile, bacteria have been producing carbon-based energy molecules for billions of years. Which do ...