Understanding the making and breaking of bonds is at the heart of chemistry. The ubiquity of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) in chemical research typically arises from their potent stabilizing ...

When fewer bonds are formed, unusual compounds such as carbenes are obtained, which have unique properties exploited in various fields of chemistry and catalysis. Rare cases exist of divalent ...

Koh and his team wanted to rectify that. With help from computational chemist Peng Liu at the University of Pittsburgh, the researchers devised a simple, copper-catalyzed method for implanting ...

A star-forming region in the Tarantula Nebula as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. MSU researchers have recently uncovered alternative sources of the molecule H₃⁺, which plays a crucial role ...

Small, polar rings and electron-withdrawing atoms are both well-loved motifs in medicinal chemistry. So oxetanes and fluorine atoms could be a match made in drug discovery heaven. Researchers also ...

State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, ...

The stabilization of reactive anionic main group species utilizing carbenes constitutes a burgeoning and scarcely explored field. Herein, the authors report the synthesis of an anionic ...