2018年5月3日 · College faculty have been leaders at the frontiers of knowledge since 1872. Current pioneering research includes premier programs in catalysis, thermodynamics, chemical biology, atmospheric chemistry, the development of polymer, optical and semiconductor materials, and nanoscience, among others.

2020年5月26日 · The most common chemical bond in the living world — that between carbon and hydrogen — has long resisted attempts by chemists to crack it open, thwarting efforts to add new bells and whistles to old carbon-based molecules.

2019年7月11日 · The technique, reported last week in the journal Science, will help chemists understand and potentially manipulate chemical reactions stimulated by light, so-called photochemical reactions. Chemists and biologists, in particular, are interested in understanding how large molecules manage to absorb light energy without breaking any bonds, as ...

2020年12月18日 · The chemical process that Hartwig and his colleagues developed keeps many of the original properties of polyethylene, but adds a chemical group to the polymer that makes it stick to metal: something polyethylene normally does poorly. His team showed that the modified polyethylene can even be painted with water-based latex.

A new thorium-aluminum complex is the first in which an actinide element donates electrons when bonding with a metal (Chem. Sci. 2018. DOI: 10.1039/c8sc01260a). The complex, synthesized by John Arnold of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues, is already unusual because of its Th(III) oxidation state. Chemists have made fewer ...

2020年3月20日 · He also worked out theoretical calculations on chemical bonding of molecules. O’Konski was born May 12, 1921, on his parents’ dairy farm in Kewaunee, WI. After obtaining a B.S. in chemistry in 1942 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he worked with a top-secret team in Panama, helping to develop gas mask technology.

2025年1月3日 · A new path optimization method creates reaction paths using EScAIP trained on Open Catalyst Project data. UC Berkeley College of Chemistry and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have created a new machine-learning method that makes computer simulations of atoms faster and more efficient.

William Lee Jolly (1927-2014), emeritus professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, (Ph.D. '52, Chem with Latimer) whose work helped facilitate the renaissance of inorganic chemistry in the United States during the middle of the 20th century, died of heart failure on January 10, 2014, at Kaiser Medical Center in Richmond, CA.

These reactions include the selective catalytic functionalization of alkanes and arenes, cross-couplings to form aryl and allyl amines and ethers, α-aryl and α-allyl carbonyl derivatives, methods for the fluorination and fluoroalkylation of arenes, additions to alkenes, methods to prepare chemicals and polymers from renewable chemical ...

2024年3月21日 · Furthermore, when these chains weave together, sometimes even the chemical reactions between them further strengthens the properties of the material itself. In 2016, Yaghi Research Group, led by UC Berkeley’s Professor of Chemistry Omar Yaghi, realized the first molecularly woven structure by interlacing the backbone of the framework in a 3D ...