For the first time, researchers have observed how bromoform rearranges its atoms in less than a trillionth of a second after ...

Scientists have just broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule and synthesized a type of 3D, unstable molecule called an ...

Chemists have synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a new strategy of functionalizing normally inert ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

Small molecules are essential for developing effective medicines, but their structural complexity and material behaviour ...

UCLA chemists have overturned a century-old rule in organic chemistry that limited molecular design by proving that ...

Astronomers find large carbon molecules in space, offering new insights into life’s origins and the chemical precursors of ...

The researchers created several different anti-Bredt olefins by making silyl precursors and then carrying out an elimination ...

Gamma radiation can convert methane into a wide variety of products at room temperature, including hydrocarbons, oxygen-containing molecules, and amino acids, reports a research team in the journal ...

To be haunted, “One need not be a House,” wrote the great poet Emily Dickinson in 1862, “The Brain—has Corridors surpassing ...

In a study in ACS Sensors, researchers report developing ultrasensitive, nanoscale sensors that in small-scale tests ...

They may work with the plant’s cannabinoids and other compounds to produce medicinal effects. Terpenes are naturally occurring chemical compounds found in plants and some animals. They’re ...