Organic chemistry is the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-containing compounds. Most organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen, but they may ...

Water is called the universal solvent for its ability to dissolve a broad range of chemicals. But you wouldn’t know that from spending time in chemistry labs, where the solvents of choice are almost ...

TROY, N.Y. — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was recently selected to host the National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) June 22-26, 2025. According to a news release, this is the first time ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

Last semester, assistant professor of chemistry Brooks Abel piloted a lab for Chemistry 12A, “Organic Chemistry,” to demonstrate recycling on a chemical level. Specifically, students decomposed ...

After 30 years, CHEM245 is being changed to two semesters of 0.5 course unit labs. Credit: Kylie Cooper The undergraduate chemistry department announced that in fall 2020 and onwards, the 1.0 course ...

It took Harvard chemistry professor Yoshito Kishi more than 100 steps to synthesize halichondrin B, a potent anticancer agent found naturally in sea sponges in amounts too low to even study. Despite ...

Earlier this week, the New York Times covered the dismissal of longtime and highly decorated professor Maitland Jones Jr. from his position as contract (non-tenured) faculty teaching a large organic ...

(A) Appraisal of the research group’s diverse inputs in AI applications for organic chemistry. Visualization through (B) research groups’ and (C) institute’s word cloud maps, along with (D) ...

For students hoping to attend professional programs such as medical school, organic chemistry is viewed as a dreaded roadblock to their aspirations. But courses that aren’t directly related to ...

The 26th Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry will be held on Friday, January 24th, 2025 (JST). The gold medal will be presented to Professor Alois Fürstner (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, ...

The Organic Chemistry lab and lecture courses are the 3000-level, pre-professional organic courses that are required for chemistry majors and pre-medical students as well as disciplines in biology, ...