Researchers are exploring materials like carbyne and borophene as stronger alternatives to graphene. Find out how these ...

These reactions include electrophilic addition to alkenes, nucleophilic substitution at tetrahedral carbon centers, nucleophilic addition to carbonyls, and nucleophilic acyl substitutions. The first ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Cancer treatments have traditionally involved a difficult balance between effectiveness and side effects. For skin cancers, this challenge is particularly pronounced. Researchers ...

Chengdu Tetrahedral Drug Research Co. Ltd. has synthesized bicyclic derivatives acting as β-lactamase (bacterial) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of bacterial infection.

Boron (B), carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O) are elements with atomic numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8, respectively, occupying consecutive positions in the periodic table. As a metalloid ...

Fullerenes are hollow carbon molecules where each atom is connected to exactly three other atoms, arranged in pentagonal and hexagonal rings. Mathematically, they can be combinatorially modeled as ...

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A computational study has challenged the long-standing notion that electrocyclic reactions can be neatly divided into being either ‘allowed’ or ‘forbidden’. 1 ‘The energy difference between allowed ...