The idea that you can take two different radicals and get them to react with one another without losing stereochemistry, ...

Photoredox catalysis harnesses visible‐light excitation of a photocatalyst to mediate single‐electron transfer events, generating carbon-centred radicals under mild conditions. These radicals undergo ...

Building the complex 3D molecules needed for new medicines has always been a bit like assembling a puzzle with pieces that ...

Organocatalysts consisting of organic compounds without metal elements are receiving much attention as next generation catalysts in the hope of reducing environmental burden and coping with exhaustion ...

Making molecules with quaternary carbon bonds—four carbons attached to a central C—is tricky but necessary for medicinal chemists. Quaternary C bonds have a discrete shape, Princeton University ...

How do radicals form in aqueous solutions when exposed to UV light? This question is important for health research and environmental protection. For example, with regard to the overfertilization of ...

Water treatment plants across the globe rely on ultraviolet light to generate hydroxyl radicals, the aggressive molecular fragments that rip apart pharmaceutical residues, pesticides, and industrial ...

Organic peroxy radicals (RO 2) are important intermediates in the degradation of atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs). RO 2 not only participates in the chain cycles of atmospheric radicals ...