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 ...

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 ...

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, ...