Beyond chemistry: How mechanical forces shape brain wiring

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

Indoor ozone reaction products can make blood thicker

Ozone that protects us from the sun's harmful UV rays, when in an indoor space, reacts with oils present on skin, wall paint, ...

JEE Main Strategy: How General Organic Chemistry Turns Memorisation into Logic

Master acid–base concepts, intermediates, and isomerism to make Organic Chemistry a high-scoring, logic-driven section in JEE ...
C&EN

Overcoming the Usual Reactivity of β-Nitroenones: Synthesis of Polyfunctionalized Homoallylic Alcohols and Conjugated Nitrotriene Systems

Institute of BioPharmaceutical Research, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252059, People’s Republic of China Green Chemistry Group, School of Sciences and Technology, Chemistry Division, ChIP Research ...
C&EN

Ozone-derived carbonyls indoors could pose a risk to heart health

High concentrations of carbonyls are produced when indoor ozone reacts with skin oils. Researchers correlated the molecules ...
C&EN

Enzymes offer easy access to diazo compounds

Emory University researchers led by Kyle Biegasiewicz have repurposed enzymes to produce diazo compounds from hydrazones ...
American Chemical Society

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds

Using ocean current models and chemical analysis, a team explains how oily material managed to travel over 5,200 miles (8,500 ...
C&EN

Transition Metal Compounds on Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for the Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction

U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCASE), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, 24090Islamabad, Pakistan Center for Energy Storage Research, Korea Institute ...
Chemistry World

How chemists are harnessing halogen bonds for asymmetric synthesis

Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...
SciELO

Volatile compounds in meat and meat products

Meaty flavor is composed of a few hundreds of volatile compounds, only minor part of which are responsible for the characteristic odor. It is developed as a result of multi-directional reactions ...
SciELO

Versatile Applications of Cyanoacetic Acid in Organic Chemistry: Active Methylene Compound for the Knoevenagel Condensation and Organocatalyst for the Biginelli Reaction

The Knoevenagel and Biginelli reactions are very important protocols for organic chemistry. The Knoevenagel condensation is a type of aldol reaction widely used in the construction of new C–C bonds.