Organic chemistry

Tiny chemical houses get a new engineering blueprint for building more orderly, robust and light-responsive structures that facilitate industrially relevant light-driven reactions.

A novel strategy reshapes single-atom catalysts to enhance their performance and efficiency in producing valuable pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

A new class of organic conductors shows high thermoelectric efficiency, thanks to an unusual arrangement of electrons inside its bonds.

Insight into the role of a three-ring ligand may improve palladium-catalyzed reactions used for synthesizing organic products

An inventive technique transforms a common reagent into a multifunctional tool for pharmaceutical synthesis

Copper salts could replace highly toxic osmium tetroxide as a catalyst for the oxidation of alkenes to diacetoxy compounds

Partially hydrolyzed titanium catalysts boost the efficiency of amino acid synthetic pathways to levels suitable for industrial applications

Synthesis of the natural product haplophytine is now possible using state-of-the-art techniques