In this study, the mechanism of self-initiation in spontaneous thermal polymerization of ethyl and n-butyl acrylate is explored using first-principles calculations. Density functional theory (with ...

Researchers have demonstrated that E. coli can perform a biocompatible Lossen rearrangement, enabling phosphate-catalysed ...

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, have developed nanoscale ‘molecular flasks’ based on single molecules of bottlebrush polymers to carefully control polyme ...

Mimicking the incredible skill of mother nature is never easy, especially when trying to match the remarkable chemical ...

Organic chemistry features a wide array of reactions for creating complex molecules, among which the Diels–Alder reaction ...

Consequently, the inverse is also true, with a higher amount of post-polymerization when the reaction is advancing slowly 26. The findings of the present study confirmed these considerations. From the ...

BOSTON — Instant reactions from the Red Sox' 4-3 win over the Rays here at Fenway Park on Wednesday. 1) Rookie Marcelo Mayer crushed his first Fenway Park home run in the second inning to put ...

Imagine being tasked with baking a soufflé, except the only instruction provided is an ingredient list without any ...

4 Effect of the steric hindrance on the propagation reaction: extraction of essential descriptors by machine learning techniques. In general, it is well known that the steric hindrance between a ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...