The unspoken promise of new technologies is that they will advance and enhance our picture of the world — that goes double for the ones that are specifically designed to let us look closer at the ...

Scientists have used computing power and clever modeling to solve a 200-year-old chemistry and math puzzle. For all these years, the question at play has been how to plot the electron structure of a ...

Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA ...

Benzene has a deceptively simple structure, which turned out to be challenging to elucidate. It was hotly debated by many chemists before the planar structure of the molecule was proven by Kathleen ...

DVMS structures for benzene. a Voronoi site for the RHF/6-31G (d) wavefunction. The electron positions of an arbitrary spin are shown as small yellow spheres. b Cross sections through the wavefunction ...

Earlier this month, Molecule of the Week brought you the venerable and extremely hazardous molecule benzene. This week’s molecule has one of the structures that was originally proposed for benzene: ...

Selective activation of benzene has been mainly limited to the C-H activation. Simple replacement of one carbon in benzene with another atom remains unresolved due to the high dissociation energy.

They say the reaction might have made the building blocks of DNA and RNA, both essential for life.