In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly ...

In a comment in Nature Reviews Chemistry, Ph.D. student Hannah Flerlage and associate professor Chris Slootweg of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences argue that ...

Have chemists been optimising the wrong variable for years when it comes to dynamic catalysis? That’s the claim made in a new ...

Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, will head an initiative to apply artificial intelligence to the ...

Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

Computational Chemistry is the study of complex chemical problems using a combination of computer simulations, chemistry theory and information science. Also called cheminformatics, this field enables ...

Nitrenes are the ghosts of synthetic chemistry, formed in an instant and gone just as quickly, rearranging into something ...

Often called the “central science,” chemistry is of vital importance to the life sciences, medicine, engineering, astronomy and many science-related fields requiring problem-solving skills. Thus, ...

Analytical chemists approach the life sciences with an interest in the composition and structure of matter for real world applciations. Analytical chemistry is the science of obtaining, processing, ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

In this issue you’ll find two pieces that discuss what have become politicized topics: gender and sex. One describes scientists’ understanding of sex and genetics, while an opinion piece from R. Lee ...

A toolkit for snapping together molecules like Lego building blocks has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Chemists Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of ...