Scientific textbooks are going to need a rewrite after U.S. researchers broke a fundamental rule of chemistry, tearing up "one hundred years of conventional wisdom." The team from the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Double bonds, or alkenes, are not supposed to form in some locations on organic molecules, which is known as Bredt’s rule.

It’s difficult to make molecules using elements that lie beyond uranium on the periodic table, which has hampered progress in studying how actinides form bonds. Now chemists have expanded the library ...

Research groups led by Qing-Yuan Meng from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Xiu-Long Yang from Hebei University recently reported a novel acylation reaction for ...

Some scientific rules were made to be broken. It used to be thought that molecules could not form some bonds in certain locations, and on the heels of that idea being disproved, these molecules can ...