A research team has managed to “bottle” a highly reactive carbene in water, overturning a major assumption in chemistry.

Criegee intermediates (CIs)—highly reactive species formed when ozone reacts with alkenes in the atmosphere—play a crucial role in generating hydroxyl radicals (the atmosphere's "cleansing agents") ...

Immobilizing small synthetic molecules inside protein crystals proves to be a promising avenue for studying intermediate compounds formed during chemical reactions, report scientists from Tokyo Tech.

Chemical reactions are the breaking and forming of chemical bonds, which are fundamental to the creation of new technologies. Inevitably, discovering and developing new chemical reactions is a ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully traced the mechanism behind how an industrially important ...

Scientists develop metal-organic framework composites that convert nitrogen to ammonia using renewable electricity, offering ...

More than six decades after a young chemist floated a radical idea about how vitamin B1 might behave in the body, researchers ...