Meet the molecules of the year 2026
Vote for your favorite molecule of 2026 Boron buckyball The possibility of a stable, 80-atom sphere made entirely…
Rhodium embedded in a zeolite framework catalyzes hydroformylation
Many commercial products, including plasticizers and detergents, rely on aldehyde building blocks. Hydroformylation constructs aldehydes from alkenes…
Chemistry in Pictures: Fluorescent side quest
Tatiana Munteanu was aiming to make light-activated molecular motors, part of a growing class of metamaterials that can…
Catalysis chemists are joining forces for reproducibility
Key Insights Catalytic chemistry is vital to many economically valuable processes. Problems with reproducibility arise when important…
Visible light knits nitroalkanes into alkenes
A quirky photochemical process has become the latest addition to the toolbox for making alkenes, a process…
Dichloromethane can act as an amide coupling reagent
In a chemistry version of whipping up a delicious dinner from pantry staples, researchers in Korea have…
Cross-coupling preserves stereochemistry of chiral carboxylic acids
Synthetic organic chemists love their cross-coupling reactions, in which they quickly construct a complex compound by connecting…
With Latent Terrain, crack open AI and explore neural synthesis in Max
“I’m not particularly interested in typing prompts to make stuff, I’m interested in breaking them and dissecting them,”…
‘Absurd’ radical reaction keeps stereochemistry intact
According to organic chemistry dogma, if you generate a radical on a chiral carbon, it’s going to…
Phosphine unexpectedly mimics metals in a photocatalytic reaction
There’s a new entry in the growing body of evidence that main-group elements like phosphorous, which are…
Chemistry in Pictures: Glowing with pride
“It looks like a tiny solar system. But instead of planets, it’s a snapshot of my research journey…
Two unusual alkenes stretch the limits of molecular geometry
Some people just really enjoy pushing molecules out of their comfort zones. Neil Garg and his team at…