Although crude oil contains a vast diversity of hydrocarbons, a comparatively small number of these make up the bulk of demand for oil. Cracking solves this mismatch: most of the demand is for light, ...

A light-driven catalyst built from palladium single atoms and plasmonic gold nanoparticles converts phenylacetylene to styrene at room temperature with 90% selectivity. (Nanowerk News) Researchers ...

When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched carbon structures-points where the molecular chain forks in a specific direction ...

Baldwin Park police and seven other agencies dismantled a major catalytic converter theft ring Tuesday, arresting four suspects and seizing 1,800 converters worth approximately $500,000. The ...

In a study published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, a team led by Prof. CHEN Qing'an from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a ...

Stolen catalytic converters have plagued car owners for years, but new legislation promises to clamp down on perpetrators. Catalytic converter thefts remain frequent, with over 14,000 incidents ...

Daud Gonzalez is a lifelong car enthusiast and automotive writer with a specialty in modified and race-ready rides. He spends most of his time modifying his cars and ruining them in the process. He is ...

3D rendering of cubene, a cube-shaped molecule containing a highly strained double bond. Credit: Neil Garg lab It’s “pushing the limits of what geometric distortion looks like,” Garg says. Cubene and ...

Cars making loud noises are never a good sign and are a particular hassle when the cause of the noise is a missing catalytic converter. Catalytic converters are regularly targeted car parts, sometimes ...

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 ...

RESTORING THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to restore the historic name “Department of War” as a secondary title for the Department of Defense. This is ...

Despite natural evidence indicating sulfur's importance and efficiency as a catalyst for critical redox reactions, including hydrogenation (addition of hydrogen to molecule) and dehydrogenation (its ...