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A total synthesis method developed by a collaboration led by Emory and Caltech opens the door to new ways of building natural ...

Scientists have just broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule and synthesized a type of 3D, unstable molecule called an ...

Chemists synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a revolutionary strategy of functionalizing normally inert carbon-hydrogen ...

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A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant ...

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A team led by Prof. Wang Chao and Prof. Huang Chengdong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the ...

Two research groups propose new synthetic strategies for making 'impossible' molecules, defying a 100-year-old bonding rule ...

A 3-D X-ray diffraction image of cylindrocyclophane A. The bonds highlighted in blue were prepared using catalytic C–H bond functionalization reactions.