Sir Fraser Stoddart, who taught chemistry at Northwestern and won the Nobel Prize in 2016, died at the age of 82.

Some molecules respond to light in a matter of seconds. In the case of this dithienylethene compound, ultraviolet light triggers a ring-forming reaction, turning the colorless solution deep red.

Sir Fraser Stoddart, who has died aged 82, was a phenomenally inventive Scottish-born scientist who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage and the Dutch ...

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A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to ...

Using heavy water, the researchers could also selectively introduce deuterium atoms along with chlorine. The weightier hydrogen isotope is useful for probing reaction mechanisms, as well as studying ...

Activating agents enable the efficient preparation of organozinc complexes from zinc metal and organohalides, but their mechanisms had been obscured by the heterogeneous nature of these systems.

Konvalinka heads Prague's Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, which this year opened a lab in Boston.