Catalytic fast pyrolysis is a promising way to convert lignin into fine chemicals and fuels, but current approaches lack selectivity and yield unsatisfactory conversion. Understanding the pyrolysis ...

Understanding the microscopic mechanisms of surface-catalysed organic reactions at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces is a grand challenge for modern heterogeneous catalysis and its application to ...

For the first time, researchers have imaged and identified the bond configuration of the intermediates in a complex sequence of chemical transformations of enediyne molecules on a silver surface and ...

The research team has successfully achieved the following breakthroughs in the well-known anthracene [4+4] photocycloaddition ...

The copper-catalyzed addition of azides and alkynes to form triazoles has been hailed as the crème de la crème of click chemistry—a way to assemble molecules via rapid, irreversible reactions. It is ...

For organic chemists, the free-radical hydrostannylation of alkynes to produce vinylstannanes is a key step in important cross-coupling and other reactions. Every published mechanism has hinged solely ...

Anthracene—a hydrocarbon known for its strong luminescence and high photo-reactivity—has long been considered one of the most iconic and widely ...

Researchers have succeeded in creating a carbene that remains stable for months in water. This supports a theory put forward ...

One of the long-standing goals being pursued by chemists has been to succeed in following and directly visualising how the structures of molecules change when they undergo complex chemical ...