A New Dichlorination of Alkenes: A Radical Twist to a Long-sought Transformation

Exploiting electrochemistry to facilitate a radical alkene dichlorination.

The First Chemical Synthesis of Griffipavixanthone: Bringing out Intellectual and Artistic Virtuosity in Synthetic Chemistry

How do synthetic chemists use fundamental, yet robust reactions to chemicals stitch together smaller fragments large and complex natural products? The Porco's Lab latest work might give you a taste of what it's like to exercise the art of total synthesis with a hint of inspiration from biology.

Nanoreactors for Enzyme Cascades

What are nanoreactors and how can they enhance multi-enzyme reactions? Let's find out!

Nature Does It Best! – Engineering New Catalysts Using Evolution

As versatile as enzymes already are, it's actually possible to engineer enzymes to catalyze reactions that are entirely new to nature!

Electrochemical Capture and Release of Carbon Dioxide

Title: Electrochemical Capture and Release of Carbon Dioxide Authors: Joseph H. Rheinhardt, Poonam Singh, Pilarisetty Tarakeshwar, and Daniel A. Buttry* Publication Info: ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2 (2), pp 454–461,  DOI:10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00608 This article is a perspective from recognized experts in the field of CO2 capture and release.  It specifically focuses on molecular CO2 binding-release agents whose...

Questions are raised about “unclick” reaction

Click chemistry, a term used to describe a number of high yield reactions, is used far and wide by chemists. The azide alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition typifies click chemistry and awhile back, I described it as my favorite reaction.

Staying Soluble with Transitioning Polypeptides

This paper is an exciting step towards mimicking the conformational changes observed in natural proteins without loss in solubility.