Understanding the delicate balance between nucleophilicity and electrophilicity is fundamental to rationalising reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry. Nucleophilic reactivity describes a molecule’s ...

Chemists develop a quantum dot system that uses 99% less energy to drive tough organic reactions, offering a leap forward in visible-light photocatalysis. Quantum dots (QDs) hold great promise as ...

The discovery strengthens the case for a new mission to orbit and land on Enceladus and search for evidence of life.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store ...

Metal-organic (MO) precursors are the chemical building blocks at the heart of atomically precise complex oxide materials.

Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from ...

The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow. These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can ...

The scientists developed structures that can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide or store toxic gases.

As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Levin started sketching out ideas for how to do something no chemist had ever managed before: swapping one of the carbon atoms in ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne) ...