A copper conundrum has researchers reevaluating how some counterintuitive chemistry really works. Last year, Robert J. Phipps and Matthew J. Gaunt of the University of Cambridge generated excitement ...

Let's imagine the "reactions observed in the six" refer to a series of related reactions involving a specific class of organic compounds – for instance, reactions of substituted benzene derivatives.

Chemists have yet another use for fluorine, as a through-space activator for electrophilic aromatic substitutions. Thomas Lectka and coworkers at Johns Hopkins University used a Diels-Alder reaction ...

Predicting the major product of organic reactions is a cornerstone skill in organic chemistry. It requires understanding ...