New pharmaceuticals, cleaner fuels, biodegradable plastics: in order to meet society's needs, chemists have to develop new synthesis methods to obtain new products that do not exist in their natural ...

The team used an electric field as a catalyst for a common reaction, the Diels-Alder reaction, improving its reaction rate by a factor of five. Lead researcher Professor Michelle Coote from The ...

In addition, how long a reaction is observed for depends on the rate of reaction. Reactions can vary from being almost instantaneous to taking years to complete. In the lab, reactions are usually ...

Chemists have developed a new theoretical framework for more accurately predicting the behavior of catalysts. The study reveals how conditions such as temperature and pressure can change a catalyst's ...

It is important that chemists can control the rate of chemical reactions to ensure that processes are both economically viable (they will result in a good yield of products and profits for the company ...

Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions – could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research?Controlling matter at the atomic level has taken a major step ...