The controlled modification of natural products enables chemists to alter the physical properties and resulting functions of these complex molecules. Selective reaction at a specific hydroxyl group in ...

Researchers can make the oxidation reactions used in the synthesis of organic molecules cleaner by hitching photovoltaics to electrochemistry. The idea is simple and yet it has huge implications. To ...

Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 103, Supplement 1: Fate, Transport, and Interactions of Metals (Feb., 1995), pp. 17-19 (3 pages) Several metal or metalloid ions exist in multiple oxidation ...

Alkanes, an important component of fuels for combustion engines and an important class of urban trace gases, react via another reaction pathways than previously thought. These hydrocarbons, formerly ...

Hybrid electrocatalysts can produce green hydrogen, for example, and valuable organic compounds simultaneously. This promises economically viable ...

This module covers aldehydes and ketones as the substrates and products of redox reactions. Structure is explained with both Lewis structures and molecular orbitals to discuss mechanisms in the ...

For more than two centuries, fossil fuels have dominated global energy and chemical production, accounting for over 80% of ...

One of the important objectives of green chemistry is the use of eco-friendly solvents and catalysts to perform chemical reactions. Catalysts such as organocatalysts, enzymes, and ionic liquids have ...

Scientists have long noted with interest that in one of nature's crucial chemical reactions—the oxygen evolution reaction—it is manganese, rather than more plentiful similar elements such as iron, ...