Thanks to the superstrength of the silicon-fluorine bond, chemists at the University of Zurich have developed a new incarnation of the venerable Friedel-Crafts reaction: intramolecular aryl-aryl ...

From life-saving drugs and synthetic polymers to diverse advanced materials, the products containing organic compounds seem endless, thanks in part to regioselectivity, a feature in chemical reactions ...

Harvard University’s Emily P. Balskus, Hitomi Nakamura, and Erica E. Schultz have discovered an enzyme, dubbed CylK, that accomplishes this same transformation during the biosynthesis of ...

IN an earlier communication 1, evidence was given upon which the following conclusion was based. In the dimerization of di-isobutene and the polymerization of isobutene, it is essential that a trace ...

THERE has been reported a critical minimum catalyst concentration of 0·03 per cent in the low-temperature polymerization of isobutene in the liquid phase using boron trifluoride, aluminium chloride or ...