In RIT’s chemistry BS, you’ll research chemicals to discover, develop, or improve products like paints, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, electronic components, and more. Prepare for Advanced Degrees: ...

The research of Professors Kagan and Soai, from France and Japan respectively, solves a century-old problem about chirality - which relates to the property of an object not being identical to its ...

How do we use chemistry in our everyday lives? A mysterious package dusted with white powder, rodent hair and a small white fiber: these are clues that a chemist educated in applied chemistry can use ...

The hydrogen (alpha-hydrogen) attached to the carbon (alpha-carbon) adjacent to a carbonyl group $${\textsf{C}{=}\textsf{O}}$$ is easily abstracted by a base. The anion formed after the hydrogen is ...

Dicarbonyl compounds, characterised by two carbonyl groups within a single molecule, occupy a central role in synthetic organic chemistry. Their unique reactivity underpins the construction of ...

Catalytic isomerization of allylic alcohols represents a versatile approach to convert readily available unsaturated alcohols into more synthetically valuable carbonyl compounds. By shifting a ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to three scientists for discovering how proteins—the building blocks of life and the dynamos that let cells function—do their jobs. Proteins ...

Dating sites often promise to help people meet others with good chemistry, although they never say what chemistry is. Good chemistry is the experience of feeling an intense connection with a potential ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. An asymmetric decarboxylative [4+2] cycloaddition from a catalytically generated ...

Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him. By Stephanie Saul See more of our coverage in your search ...