Organic chemistry is a difficult subject to master for many reasons, one of which is the sometimes-confusing nomenclature of organic compounds. The Learn Organic Chemistry Nomenclature app walks users ...

A research team has analyzed the structure of six natural products from an Australian shrub, Cryptocarya laevigata. The compounds contained a spiro[3.5]nonane moiety -- cyclohexene sharing a single ...

Organic chemistry is the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-containing compounds. Most organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen, but they may ...

Lightning and volcanos both produce glass, and humans have been making glass from silicon dioxide since prehistory. Industrialization brought us boron-based glasses, polymer glasses and metallic ...

Defined as neutral compounds containing a divalent carbon atom with a six-electron valence shell, carbenes are an intriguing class of carbon-containing compounds. Their incomplete electron octet and ...

For many students of science, there appears to be little middle ground regarding the subject of organic chemistry—it is either loved or loathed. Thanks to ChemTube 3D, a wonderful online resource from ...

NO more striking illustration of the development of organic chemistry could be found than that presented by the growth of this popular German treatise. Appearing about 1880, as companion volume to a ...

Kanazawa - The botanical world can be an exciting place for chemists. Plant species produce a beautiful array of organic molecules with complex structures, often of great practical use. Indeed, this ...