(Nanowerk News) Molecules are so small that we cannot even see them with ordinary microscopes. This makes studying molecules or chemical reactions difficult: researchers are limited to either indirect ...

Finding a life-changing drug molecule is like playing the lottery — only one out of several million candidate organic molecules that are initially screened might progress through preclinical studies ...

When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched ...

A key objective of ongoing research rooted in molecular physics is to understand and precisely control chemical reactions at very low temperatures. At low temperatures, the chemical reactions between ...

(Nanowerk News) RIKEN scientists have developed a method to control and study a chemical reaction in a single molecule. The technique could eventually help to fabricate advanced electronic devices ...

Chemical reactions often produce messy mixtures of different products. Hence, chemists spend a lot of time coaxing their reactions to be more selective to make particular target molecules. Now, an ...

A small molecule traps reaction intermediates on an electrocatalytic surface, making ethylene production more efficient and ...