A copper conundrum has researchers reevaluating how some counterintuitive chemistry really works. Last year, Robert J. Phipps and Matthew J. Gaunt of the University of Cambridge generated excitement ...

Nanographenes are organic semiconductor materials used in smartphones, OLED displays, and solar cells. At the molecular level ...

The electron is an efficient catalyst for conducting various types of radical cascade reaction that proceed by way of radical and radical ion intermediates. But because electrons are omnipresent, ...

Researchers develop a one pot process to transform aromatic ketones to esters, offering advancements in pharmaceutical synthesis and materials science. Aromatic ketones have traditionally been ...

WITH THE HELP OF a copper catalyst, researchers have circumvented the rules of electrophilic aromatic substitution, a fundamental reaction in organic synthesis. The advance enables substitution ...

A vast number of synthetic and natural organic compounds found in the biosphere are poisonous to living organisms 1,2. Nitroaromatic compounds, which are widely synthesized and used industrially as ...

Most medicines and functional materials are synthesized by introducing functional groups into an aromatic ring of substrates. Many kinds of reactions and catalysts have been developed, but it is still ...

I have received an eight-page article entitled "Photochemical nucleophile-olefin combination, aromatic substitution reaction. Its synthetic development and mechanistic exploration", just published by ...