One hundred years after “nuclear isomers” were first discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák pick five examples of these long-lived, excited nuclear states to show why they are so important in ...

NMR spectroscopy is very useful for identifying the chemical structure of compounds. It is not just capable of offering data with regards to the functional groups present but also offers data about ...

Dennis Mücher receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Michigan State University ...

PNAS is the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serial. It publishes high-impact research reports, commentaries, perspectives, reviews, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. In ...

Isomers are compounds with the same molecular formulae but different structural formulae. They have the same number of each type of atom. They can be part of the same or different homologous series, e ...

Isomers are molecules with the same formula but different chemical structures. Can be used to recap on isomers or could lead into a classroom discussion on nature’s chemistry.