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 ...

El Agente Q, an artificial intelligence model, solves quantum chemistry problems by delegating tasks to specialist modules.

One of the greatest revolutions in the field of pain medication was the isolation of morphine from the opium poppy in the ...

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 ...

New experimental data on solid–liquid equilibrium (SLE) phase diagrams for binary systems {(−)-menthol or thymol + n-dodecane, or 1-dodecanol, or 2-phenylethanol} are presented. An influence of ...

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 ...