Researchers synthesized weird molecules that exist in three dimensions, breaking Bredt's rule and helping to develop future ...

By exploring the properties, structures, and reactions of organic molecules, organic chemists can develop new materials, including drugs, fuels and plastics, and probe the underlying chemistry of life ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

Chemistry students are taught that some molecular shapes are so strained they simply cannot exist. For about 100 years, one of those supposed impossibilities has been locked into textbooks as a hard ...

The origin of life from Earth's primordial chemistry has long fascinated and perplexed us. Generations of scientists have endeavored to understand how complex biochemistry developed from organic ...

Seeing chemistry unfold inside living cells is one of the biggest challenges of modern bioimaging. Raman microscopy offers a ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Scientists may have found an unexpected way to break down “forever chemicals”—by borrowing chemistry from failing lithium-ion ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists found that simple amino acids bond into peptides on interstellar dust, long ...

Fledgling universities funded by kings and other leaders hired professors for their chemistry departments. Organic chemistry became a recognized discipline. These developments established an entirely ...

The material melts ice as fast or faster than plain salt does, Choi says, while lasting longer and thereby reducing the total ...