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

Chemical reactions at surfaces play a central role in many processes, including catalysis and materials synthesis. It is well ...

IBS researchers used the AI robot Robowski to find a new path in a 130-year-old Biginelli reaction. Robowski ran up to 1,000 daily experiments and revealed a complex reaction where seven molecules ...

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 ...

For more than a century, pharmaceutical companies have relied on flat structures called aromatic rings, which can help drugs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...