Chemists have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable alkenes. Chemists from the National University of ...

An artist’s rendition of the new catalytic method for asymmetric fragmentation of cyclopropanes. (Credit: YAP Co., Ltd.) An organic catalyst offers chemists precise control over a vital step in ...

Reactions that completely break carbon-carbon double bonds have particular transformative power in synthesis. Ozonolysis, which splits one alkene into two carbonyl compounds using trioxygen, is widely ...