Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

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Researchers discovered how to flip the structure of complex drug compounds using a simple reagent, offering a game-changing ...

Controlling regioselectivity remains one of the major challenges in hydrocyanation. When an unsymmetrical alkyne undergoes this reaction, it typically yields a mixture of regioisomers. This ...

Highly reactive complex molecules finding some sort of stability was a necessary step towards life getting started on Earth. Scientists think they've just discovered how these first began to stay ...

Complex organic molecules have been detected in a galaxy located more than 12 billion light-years away using the James Webb Space Telescope. CNN values your feedback 1.

Organic molecules — compounds containing carbon — abound on Earth, especially in the bodies of living things. They’re often called the building blocks of life, and for good reason: Carbon atoms can ...

Nora Hänni, a chemist at the University of Bern, has been identifying and analyzing the complex organic molecules detected in comet 67P by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe.

The complex organic molecules they observed using the space observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument included acetic acid, a component of vinegar, and ethanol — otherwise known as alcohol.

Yet just because carbon can form complex molecules does not mean it automatically will. In the vastness of star-forming clouds, atoms are so dispersed they seldom come in contact with each other.

New research shows how a simple molecule called ortho-benzyne helps form more complex organic molecules deep inside a frigid gas cloud. The team says it plays a small but critical role in creating ...