Cooling water to near freezing breaks the activity–stability trade-off of water oxidation electrocatalysis
Arrhenius, S. Über die reaktionsgeschwindigkeit bei der inversion von Rohrzucker durch Säuren. Z. Phys. Chem. 4, 226–248 (1889).…
Blue LED lights help chemists build complex drug molecules
In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly…
Titan’s Organic World – Astrobiology
Illustration of the thermal structure of Titan’s atmosphere and its atmospheric processes. It illustrates the high-altitude photochemistry of…
In The Heart Of Planetary Nebula Tc 1, A Buckyball Of Buckyballs
The planetary nebula Tc 1, as observed by JWST’s MIRI mid-infrared instrument, uses a combination of nine filters…
Boron-assisted reactions overcome solubility barriers in protein synthesis
Chemists from ETH Zurich have found a way to produce poorly soluble proteins by caging a uniquely reactive…
Wavelength-steered directional rotation in an autonomous light-driven molecular motor
Baker, M. A. B. & Berry, R. M. An introduction to the physics of the bacterial flagellar motor:…
Defying Longstanding Chemical Rules, Chemists Have Engineered Exotic Molecules They Say Could “Benefit Our World”
UCLA researchers who first violated Bredt’s rule in 2024—a century-old principle of organic chemistry—are once again challenging our…
New insights into alcohol-related DNA damage and cancer risk
Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team…
Chemical tuning of quantum spin–electric coupling in molecular magnets
The Mn(Me6tren)X compounds The crystallographic structure of Cl derivative 1 is the same as that reported for its…
Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in microgravity
General notes All aqueous solutions were prepared with ultrapure water (18.2 MΩ cm, Veolia). Chemicals were purchased with an analytical…
Bright triplet and bright charge-separated singlet excitons in organic diradicals enable optical read-out and writing of spin states
Photoexcitation in the spin triplet manifold is constrained to similar non-bonding to π/π* ‘bandgap’ excitations as for the…