My overarching goal in the lab is to understand organic reactions by studying their electron transfer mechanisms,” said Kristine Legaspi, a chemistry graduate student at the San Diego State University ...

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking chemical bonds. The rules governing how these bonds, which hold atoms together in ...

Shakespeare wrote "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But would it if the molecules that generate its fragrance were to change their shape? Shakespeare wrote “a rose by any other name ...

This week, I noticed that a collection of servers, which can predict the shapes of RNA molecules, have been upgraded, and their new website looks great. Paste any RNA sequence into the University of ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Chemical engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign now understand how water molecules assemble and change shape in some settings, revealing a new strategy to speed up ...

Common in nature and found in DNA and amino acids, chiral molecules are asymmetric with a structure that’s different from its mirror image. Chiral amino acids are “left-handed” and cannot be swapped ...

Such quantum chemical calculations do not provide exact values, but rather approximations, Dr. Bokareva explains. The current state of individual molecules is determined by the difference between ...

Scientists have devised a new way to create the next generation of man-made molecules in a breakthrough that could revolutionize drug development. Scientists in Leeds have devised a new way to create ...

Chemists have developed a light-driven method for producing a rare and highly strained molecular structure known as “housane.” Designing a new drug often starts with a basic but difficult task: making ...