About 45% of the questions are asked from Organic Chemistry in any engineering entrance examination. Students should understand the mechanics of all the reactions in organic Chemistry. If students try ...

This is Part-2 of the two part series on Alkyl Halides. In IIT JEE, UPSEE, WBJEE and various other engineering entrance examinations, the chapter Alkyl Halides plays an important role. About 2-5 ...

Because ketones are widespread in organic molecules, chemists are eager to develop new reactions that use them to form chemical bonds. One challenging reaction is the one-electron reduction of ketones ...

Professor FU Yao and Associate Professor LU Xi from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have conducted a cobalt-hydride-catalyzed enantioselective hydroalkylation, enabling the ...

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 ...