Green synthesis represents a transformative approach to organic compound production that minimises environmental impact by harnessing renewable resources, benign solvents and recyclable catalysts.

New play in transition metal chemistry playbook revealed. New research shows that net oxidative addition can occur via a different order of events in which the transitiion metal complex accepts ...

Development of chiral catalysts Enantioselective C–C and C–X bond-forming reactions Different types of chirality (e.g., stereocenter, axial, planar, inherent, helical, torsional, topological) ...

Organic chemistry is the study of the millions of carbon-based compounds, including those that make up the building blocks of all known life. By exploring the properties, structures, and reactions of ...

Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing these improvements requires that chemists design around documented reaction ...

A research team reports they have created an organic reaction called α-allylation with simple ketones and allyl alcohols.

We offer a reserach area with its core in the Organic Chemistry of Natural Products focusing on understanding utilizing, and replicating the chemical compounds produced by living organisms. This way ...

Click reactions—the subject of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry—come in many forms, but they all share a few key features. Namely, click chemistry forges new chemical bonds quickly, selectively, and ...

Earlier this week, the New York Times covered the dismissal of longtime and highly decorated professor Maitland Jones Jr. from his position as contract (non-tenured) faculty teaching a large organic ...

Organic chemistry permeates our daily lives– from the aroma of a cup of coffee to the fuel in our cars and the fibers in our clothing, organic compounds play a important role. Within biomedical ...

Organic chemistry makes much of modern life possible. The highly creative science finds ways to make and break chemical bonds to produce increasingly complex materials. The field enables the ...