Using robots and click chemistry, scientists built potential active ingredients for future antibiotics that contain metal.

For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was discovered more than 50 years ago and has shown potential as an anticancer agent. The compound has ...

Carbon, with its myriad compounds, is the backbone of life and the central element of organic chemistry. The number of bonds ...

Of the elements in the first full row of the periodic table that are capable of forming a double bond with one another, the only missing pair has been boron and oxygen. But no longer, thanks to ...