The mid-nineteenth century saw the development of a radical new direction in chemistry: instead of simply analyzing existing molecules, chemists began to synthesize them—including molecules that did ...

Chemists have developed a light-driven method for producing a rare and highly strained molecular structure known as “housane.” Designing a new drug often starts with a basic but difficult task: making ...

DURING the last two or three years a number of elementary books on organic chemistry have appeared, and it may be doubted whether any purpose is served by further multiplication of the same material ...

Molten lead(II) bromide can be broken down into lead metal and bromine gas, and lithium chloride can be broken down into lithium metal and chlorine gas. Oxygen and hydrogen gases can be obtained from ...

Crafts” reaction, because its selectivity is opposite to that of the nearly 150-year-old aromatic substitution reaction, ...

Chemists created a strange 'half-Mӧbius' molecule, where electrons twist freely out of place to make a continuously looping ...