One of the fundamental reactions we teach in organic chemistry is 鈥渘ucleophilic substitution鈥 in which an atom or group of atoms in a molecule is exchanged for another one. Quite logically, the...
鈥淭his year鈥檚 [Nobel] Prize in Chemistry deals with not overcomplicating matters鈥 says Johan 脜qvist, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. It has a simple and catchy name: Click Chemistry....
E-readers might be convenient, but they鈥檒l never have that comforting old book smell. It turns out that the smell of old books is due to the organic materials in books (like cellulose from wood...
In a paper published in this week鈥檚 issue of Science, astronomers from the Max Planck institute, the University of Cologne (Germany) and Cornell University (USA), announced to聽have for the first...