Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as “chirality”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...

A new derivative of ferrocene has 20 valence electrons, challenging the longstanding rule that organometallic compounds can ...

Once thought unlikely, this new finding in coordination chemistry could lead to promising advances in catalysis and materials science. For more than 100 years, the widely accepted 18-electron rule has ...

A research team has discovered an electrochemical method that allows highly selective para-position single-carbon insertion ...

A research team has discovered an electrochemical method that allows highly selective para-position single-carbon insertion into polysubstituted ...

The post Technique Pioneered BY MIT Physicists Breaks New Ground In The Visualization Of Atomic Behavior first on TwistedSifter. Sure you learned about them in your high school Chemistry classes, but ...

Heleveria is a PhD student in Petr Kovaříček’s lab at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague. Her research ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

A new stable 20-electron derivative of ferrocene has been synthesized, challenging the long-standing textbook 18-electron ...

For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with ...

For over a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at ...