Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing these improvements requires that chemists design around documented reaction ...

An illustration of a person in a lab coat looking at a picket fence. The field is various elements, metals specifically. Credit: Chris Gash On a summer day about 20 years ago, Paul Chirik returned to ...

A newly engineered manganese complex combines ultra-strong light absorption with a record-breaking excited-state lifetime, challenging the dominance of rare metals in photochemistry. Its simple, ...

Almost half a century ago, a remarkable molecule called metallocene took center stage in chemistry, earning Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst Otto Fischer the Nobel Prize. These organic compounds, made of ...

The production of many products used in everyday life and in industry, such as pharmaceuticals, plastics, and coatings, requires chemical catalysts, often expensive noble metals with limited ...

New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states, paving the way for future large-scale applications of photochemistry. (Nanowerk News) Reactions are typically driven by heat.

Researchers in South Korea have developed a new catalyst design strategy that boosts the ...

Earth’s earliest microbes may have built vital chemistry around molybdenum, a metal thought too scarce to matter in ancient oceans. By tracing genes across life, researchers now argue those organisms ...