Robert Robinson was a famous scientist. As the head of the University of Oxford’s organic chemistry lab in the 1930s, he’d become known for synthesizing alkaloids and other plant-derived ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

Scientists in Germany have achieved something never seen before: creating a stable boron-carbon triple bond. While triple ...

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will go to a trio of researchers who discovered, expressed, and developed green fluorescent protein (GFP) and revolutionized the way that biologists visualize living ...

The chemists reveal that they are now particularly ... They hope their research will inspire other scientists to explore new possibilities in chemical synthesis. "Another benefit that is often ...