Carbon is the fourth most abundant element on earth and the building block of life. Sugars, proteins, DNA and fats are all composed primarily of carbon atoms linked together by carbon-carbon bonds.

Organic synthesis is the art of creating molecules, used for creating essential items like pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials for high-tech gadgets such as smartphones. Think of it as ...

For more than a century, magnesium has been prized as a reactive metal capable of facilitating a range of important organic syntheses—the Grignard reaction, for example. For calcium, which sits just ...

PROF. CH. COURTOT, of Nancy, has given an account (Bull. Soc. Chim., 3, 1433; 1936) of the life and work of Prof. Grignard, Nobel Laureate in 1912, who was best known for his researches on the use of ...

During a symposium in June, the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) awarded the Citation for Chemical Breakthrough to the University of Lyon, in France, in honor of the institution’s role ...