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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DR. VOGEL‘S books on analysis are widely used in teaching practical inorganic chemistry. His new volume is intended as a comprehensive laboratory manual for students of organic chemistry. It gives 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 ...