Catalytic fast pyrolysis is a promising way to convert lignin into fine chemicals and fuels, but current approaches lack selectivity and yield unsatisfactory conversion. Understanding the pyrolysis ...

For the first time, researchers have imaged and identified the bond configuration of the intermediates in a complex sequence of chemical transformations of enediyne molecules on a silver surface and ...

Criegee intermediates (CIs)—highly reactive species formed when ozone reacts with alkenes in the atmosphere—play a crucial role in generating hydroxyl radicals (the atmosphere's "cleansing agents") ...

The copper-catalyzed addition of azides and alkynes to form triazoles has been hailed as the crème de la crème of click chemistry—a way to assemble molecules via rapid, irreversible reactions. It is ...

For organic chemists, the free-radical hydrostannylation of alkynes to produce vinylstannanes is a key step in important cross-coupling and other reactions. Every published mechanism has hinged solely ...

Hydrogen, the simplest element on Earth, is a clean fuel that could revolutionize the energy industry. Accessing hydrogen, however, is not a simple or clean process at all. Pure hydrogen is extremely ...

The group is concerned with all aspects of the fundamentals, methodologies and applications of inorganic reaction mechanisms, that is of the processes of bond formation and cleavage, electron transfer ...

One of the long-standing goals being pursued by chemists has been to succeed in following and directly visualising how the structures of molecules change when they undergo complex chemical ...