'We’re one catalytic reaction away from solving climate change': Nobel laureate in Bengaluru lecture

BENGALURU: Nobel laureates James Robinson (Economic Sciences, 2024) and David MacMillan (Chemistry, 2021) delivered lectures ...

Bacterial enzyme structure reveals new path for renewable plastic

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

Researchers Crack Decades-Old Chemistry Challenge

A computational method accurately predicts the optimal ligand for a photochemical palladium catalyst, enabling new radical reactions of alkyl ketones. Ketones are common components in many organic ...

A high-performance biocatalytic platform for green hydrocarbon production

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a highly efficient cell-free enzyme system that converts ...

Computationally accelerated organic synthesis: Optimal ligand prediction for generating reactive alkyl ketone radicals

Because ketones are widespread in organic molecules, chemists are eager to develop new reactions that use them to form ...