Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials and batteries all depend on our ability to make new molecules. But discovery of new substances is slow, expensive and ...

Exploring Oxygen Chemistry Beyond Iron Rice University chemist Raúl Hernández Sánchez wanted to know whether oxygen could form similar compounds with a different group of metals found near the bottom ...

Scholars at Harvard tell their stories in the Experience series. When George Whitesides started as a teenage technician in his father’s Kentucky lab in the early 1950s, the bond was immediate — and ...

Chemists have developed a catalyst that breaks a long-standing rule governing which molecules receive electrons during chemical reactions. By releasing electrons directly into solution, the technique ...

Click chemistry is a class of fast and simple reactions that scientists use to connect two molecules together. It includes many synthesis strategies that fall under the umbrella of click reactions, ...