A year after undermining Bredt's rule, scientists make cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking ...

DNA origami enables precise patterning of molecules on 2D semiconductors

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Nanjing University of China, ...

Scientists design molecules 'backward' to speed up discovery

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...
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How molecules move in extreme water environments depends on their shape

Water behaves in remarkable ways when heated and pressurized beyond its critical point. Under these extreme conditions, known as supercritical water, it no longer acts like an ordinary liquid. Instead ...
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Infrared radiation from excited molecules reveals tissue composition

A project at the Laboratory of Attosecond Physics (LAP), run jointly by Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU) and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) has developed a molecular ...
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Metal compounds identified as potential new antibiotics, thanks to robots doing 'click chemistry'

Using robots and click chemistry, scientists built potential active ingredients for future antibiotics that contain metal.
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Qubit Number to Simulate Molecules Reportedly Reduced by the Sorbonne and Qubit Pharmaceuticals

Officials at Qubit Pharmaceuticals report that the company has drastically reduced the number of qubits needed to compute the properties of small molecules with its Hyperion-1 emulator, a device that ...