Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...

A reaction mechanism is a sequence of elementary reactions that can explain how an overall chemical reaction proceeds. Direct conversion of carboxylic acids to nitriles is desirable but ...

Wylen’s father was not a murderer, and neither was he hanged. He was Wallace Hume Carothers, the inventor of nylon, the world’s first synthetic fibre, and of neoprene, a kind of synthetic rubber.