ONE of the most fascinating problems of organic chemistry consists in the attempt to prepare compounds the molecules of which are devoid of planes of symmetry, and are therefore capable (like a ...

Organic chemistry, the chemistry of carbon compounds, is the basis of all life on Earth. However, metals also play a key role ...

The team has been improving catalysts to synthesize optically active organoboron compounds since it developed a method for the borylation of organic compounds via a copper (I) catalyst in 2000.

It results in specific optically active defects -- so-called sp3 defects -- which are more luminescent and can emit single photons, that is, particles of light.

Valproic acid (VPA), formally 2-propylpentanoic acid, is a low–molecular weight branched-chain fatty acid. It is a derivative of valeric (pentanoic) acid1, which occurs naturally in valerian ...