North Carolina State University students studying organic chemistry no longer have to visit a lab in person to complete coursework. The university’s Rob-O-Chem lab at 851 Main Campus Drive in Raleigh ...

Organic chemistry is a scientific area of study that is used to describe the structure, properties, composition, reactions and preparation of all chemical compounds containing the element carbon. Some ...

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

THE first edition of this well-known treatise appeared in 1867, and consisted of 630 pages which, as the preface of the present issue points out, sufficed to give a fuller account of the science of ...

Crude oil is a finite resource. Petrol and other fuels are produced from it using fractional distillation. Cracking is used to convert long alkanes into shorter, more useful hydrocarbons. More organic ...

The word “green” conjures up environmental images—grass, trees and eco-friendly products. Green is everywhere, from green buildings to green cleaning products, even green vacations. As chemists, we ...

Foul-smelling hydrogen sulphide may have been an important precursor in the chemistry that eventually led to life on Earth, a new study suggests. Modern analyses of samples archived from 1950s ...