From life-saving drugs and synthetic polymers to diverse advanced materials, the products containing organic compounds seem endless, thanks in part to regioselectivity, a feature in chemical reactions ...

Harvard University’s Emily P. Balskus, Hitomi Nakamura, and Erica E. Schultz have discovered an enzyme, dubbed CylK, that accomplishes this same transformation during the biosynthesis of ...

Asymmetric Friedel–Crafts reactions harness chiral catalysts to induce enantioselective carbon–carbon bond formation between activated arenes and electrophiles. Over the past two decades, advances in ...

A gloved hand places a glass vial into a sample holder grid illuminated with blue, green, and red lights. Blue light activates a radical ion pair that can forge new chemical bonds without toxic ...