A new review maps how membrane engineering, noble-free catalysts and alternative alcohol fuels are pushing direct alcohol fuel cells toward commercial reality.

Christopher H. Hendon’s obsession with coffee started when he was getting his PhD in chemistry at the University of Bath. Back then he was just a normal person who would drink coffee at his favorite ...

Scripps Research chemists have extended a powerful molecule-building method—called C-H activation—to the broad class of chemicals known as alcohols. The synthetic chemistry feat, reported in Nature on ...

Korean distilled soju has long been prized for its clean, deceptively simple character, but behind every bottle lies a ...

The stereoconvergent reduction of alkenes for efficient synthesis of chiral compounds is a challenge in synthetic chemistry, even for exquisite enzymes in nature. Natural ene-reductases for example ...