Researchers report they have discovered a chemical reaction that might someday be used to process petroleum into useful compounds. For more than a decade in the middle of the 20th century, chemists ...

Chemists have explained the structure of a non-classical carbocation. They have captured the 2-norbornyl cation as a crystal and determining beyond doubt the structure of this unusual and instable ...

The design of mechanism-based enzyme inactivators to generate chemical probes for biological research is an important challenge in carbohydrate chemistry. Here we describe the synthesis and biological ...

For more than a decade in the middle of the 20th century, chemists debated exactly what "carbocations" -- molecules with a positively charged carbon atom -- looked like. What is known as the ...