A team has introduced a strategy for converting carbon-nitrogen atom pairs in a frequently used ring-shaped compound into carbon-carbon atom pairs. The method has potential in the quest for active ...

Researchers at the UC Davis Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics have found a route to synthesize the psychoactive drug ibogaine and related compounds. This will make it easier to study ...

A team of chemists from Scripps Research and Rice University has unveiled a novel method to simplify the synthesis of piperidines, a key structural component in many pharmaceuticals. The study, ...

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerizations have emerged as a powerful and cost-effective approach for fabricating ultrathin polymer films with diverse functionalities. During this free ...

Researchers tested a strategy for developing single-atom catalysts that may help us develop more efficient methods for water purification. All humans need clean water to live. However, purifying water ...

Energy-efficient membrane technologies are essential for reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in industrial separations. Two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic framework (MOF) molecular sieve ...

Extending or trimming the length of a drug molecule’s carbon backbone by just a couple of atoms can significantly alter its activity, even if nothing else in the structure changes. So reactions that ...

The skeletal editing of pyridines is a useful technique in organic synthesis, and one which is promising as regards the development of new drugs. The process resembles an operation on a molecule, ...