Catalytic fast pyrolysis is a promising way to convert lignin into fine chemicals and fuels, but current approaches lack selectivity and yield unsatisfactory conversion. Understanding the pyrolysis ...

The research team has successfully achieved the following breakthroughs in the well-known anthracene [4+4] photocycloaddition ...

One of the long-standing goals being pursued by chemists has been to succeed in following and directly visualising how the structures of molecules change when they undergo complex chemical ...

Crystallographic studies of D-xylose isomerase (D-xylose ketol-isomerase, EC 5.3.1.5) incubated to equilibrium with substrate/product mixtures of xylose and xylulose show electron density for a bound ...

Anthracene—a hydrocarbon known for its strong luminescence and high photo-reactivity—has long been considered one of the most iconic and widely ...

See Blog at Nature Catalysis: Behind the Paper. While catalytic mechanisms on electrode surfaces have been proposed for decades, the pathways by which the product’s chemical bonds evolve from the ...

Chemical reactions rarely go from start to finish in a single step, as intermediates form during the transition between starting materials and final products. For example, when our bodies synthesize ...

Putting a new twist on an old favorite of organic chemistry, researchers have unveiled the phospha-bora-Wittig reaction. It offers a relatively straightforward way to prepare phosphaalkenes, which are ...

Researchers have succeeded in creating a carbene that remains stable for months in water. This supports a theory put forward ...

For the first time, researchers have imaged and identified the bond configuration of the intermediates in a complex sequence of chemical transformations of enediyne molecules on a silver surface and ...