Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking ...

A new three-way bond-breaking and making mechanism makes the synthesis of five-membered rings easier than before.

Founded in 1911, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) is Asia’s global university committed to the highest international standards of excellence in teaching and research, and has been at the ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, and Omar M Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for developing a new form of molecular architecture, yielding materials that can help tackle challenges ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa, and Omar M. Yaghi for their groundbreaking work in the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs.

Three scientists who discovered how to create a class of remarkable materials with microscopic cavities that are ideal for stashing away molecules of other substances have been awarded this year’s ...

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for their work on metal-organic frameworks. The three scientists' work could tackle some of the ...

Amid a sea of students at a lecture hall in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), a young bespectacled boy listens curiously. At just seven years old, Theodore Kwan has been attending freshmen ...

This is the second course in a two-semester sequence. A functional group approach to organic chemistry is presented, with an emphasis on alkenes, alkynes, aromatic compounds, aldehydes, ketones, ...

Join us for the Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry, Purdue University’s premier annual event celebrating excellence in organic chemistry. This lecture series honors the legacy of Nobel ...

In a recent review article, a research team outlined recent progress in transition metal-free techniques to achieve coupling. Their combined efforts in these methods could help minimize waste and ...