A copper conundrum has researchers reevaluating how some counterintuitive chemistry really works. Last year, Robert J. Phipps and Matthew J. Gaunt of the University of Cambridge generated excitement ...

The electron is an efficient catalyst for conducting various types of radical cascade reaction that proceed by way of radical and radical ion intermediates. But because electrons are omnipresent, ...

Researchers develop a one pot process to transform aromatic ketones to esters, offering advancements in pharmaceutical synthesis and materials science. Aromatic ketones have traditionally been ...

Chemists have yet another use for fluorine, as a through-space activator for electrophilic aromatic substitutions. Thomas Lectka and coworkers at Johns Hopkins University used a Diels-Alder reaction ...

Essential chemical intermediates in dye manufacture are nitroanilines. In this experiment series, p-nitroaniline is synthesized by a multi-step sequence as shown in Figure 1. This compound is used to ...