In an effort to open the door to new and useful products, chemistry researchers are on the continual lookout for processes that unlock important molecules and the bonds that can put them together.

Carbene complexes are organometallic species characterised by a neutral divalent carbon centre coordinated to a transition metal. These complexes fall into distinct classes: Fischer carbenes, which ...

Carbenes, neutral species bearing a divalent carbon atom with two nonbonded electrons, have emerged as versatile intermediates in modern organic synthesis. Their unique electronic structure enables ...

For the first time, a transient singlet carbene has been trapped--and stabilized--for days inside the cavity of a cage molecule at ambient temperature, according to chemists at Rutgers University. For ...

Photosensitizers absorb sunlight and pass that energy along to generate electricity or drive chemical reactions. Scientists watched what happened when light hit an inexpensive photosensitizer, iron ...

In an effort to open the door to new and useful products, chemistry researchers are on the continual lookout for processes ...

This NHC catalyzes the formation of metal-metal bonds. Two advances in the chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) demonstrate the range of reactivity for these unusual molecules. One study ...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a class of carbenes, highly reactive molecules, used to make catalysts - substances that facilitate chemical ...

Chemists have developed a novel way to generate a variety of highly useful chemical building blocks by harnessing metal carbenes, suggests new research. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

More than six decades after a young chemist floated a radical idea about how vitamin B1 might behave in the body, researchers have finally shown that his “crazy” proposal was right. By trapping an ...