Mechanochemical synthesis harnesses mechanical energy to drive chemical transformations under solvent‐minimised or solvent-free conditions. This approach, frequently executed by ball milling or liquid ...

A new three-way bond-breaking and making mechanism makes the synthesis of five-membered rings easier than before.

SINGAPORE and SHANGHAI, Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck, a leading science and technology company, and ChemLex, a Singapore-headquartered innovation company pioneering AI-driven automated chemical ...

With artificial intelligence, scientists can design increasingly complex small molecule structures. Automation is critical for transforming these compounds from designs on a screen into actual ...

A single enzyme that can generate all four nucleotide triphosphates, the building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), was ...

Azides are chemical compounds widely used in synthetic organic chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and materials chemistry. However, conventional synthesis methods for azide compounds have severe ...

Using a physical force such as grinding to drive a reaction, known as mechanochemistry, has gained attention in recent years as a greener alternative to potentially wasteful solvent-based methods. But ...

As an engineering plastic having high transparency and impact resistance, polycarbonate (PC) is employed in eyeglass lenses, camera lenses, DVDs, automobile headlights and bulletproof glass. The ...

When Clay Bennett started his postdoctoral stint in 2005, he thought—“naively,” he admits—that he would spend just a couple of months preparing a few grams of an oligosaccharide before using the ...