The latest short science news items from C&EN. The researchers trigger the reaction with violet light. First, there is an electron transfer from an oxidant, a N-alkoxyphthalimide ester, to the ...

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable alkenes ...

This study is led by Dr. Junyang Liu and Prof. Wenjing Hong from Xiamen University. The molecular synthesis is done by Prof. Zhong-Ning Chen (State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian ...

Cubene and quadricyclene are descended from cubane and quadricylane, both cage-shaped structures with bonds that are fairly ...