Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing these improvements requires that chemists design around documented reaction ...

Researchers in South Korea have developed a new catalyst design strategy that boosts the ...

An illustration of a person in a lab coat looking at a picket fence. The field is various elements, metals specifically. Credit: Chris Gash On a summer day about 20 years ago, Paul Chirik returned to ...

A newly engineered manganese complex combines ultra-strong light absorption with a record-breaking excited-state lifetime, challenging the dominance of rare metals in photochemistry. Its simple, ...

New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states, paving the way for future large-scale applications of photochemistry. (Nanowerk News) Reactions are typically driven by heat.

Almost half a century ago, a remarkable molecule called metallocene took center stage in chemistry, earning Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst Otto Fischer the Nobel Prize. These organic compounds, made of ...

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Earth’s earliest microbes may have built vital chemistry around molybdenum, a metal thought too scarce to matter in ancient ...