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Studying Organic Chemistry Can Pay Off

26 Jul 2024

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...

A Lesson From Nature: What Click Chemistry Is, and Why It Won a Nobel Prize

12 Oct 2022

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....

Why Do Old Books Smell So Good?

13 May 2017

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...

Space Molecules are Branching Out

20 Mar 2017

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...

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