Scripps Research chemists have extended a powerful molecule-building method—called C-H activation—to the broad class of chemicals known as alcohols. The synthetic chemistry feat, reported in Nature on ...

Organic molecules are peppered with carbon-hydrogen bonds, and chemists have built up a fantastic toolbox of methods to break these bonds and put more useful functional groups in their place. This ...

Catalytic dehydrogenation of alcohols comprises a class of chemical transformations in which hydrogen atoms are removed from alcohol substrates to yield carbonyl compounds and molecular hydrogen. This ...

Christopher H. Hendon’s obsession with coffee started when he was getting his PhD in chemistry at the University of Bath. Back then he was just a normal person who would drink coffee at his favorite ...