THE first edition of this well-known treatise appeared in 1867, and consisted of 630 pages which, as the preface of the present issue points out, sufficed to give a fuller account of the science of ...

Organic chemistry is a scientific area of study that is used to describe the structure, properties, composition, reactions and preparation of all chemical compounds containing the element carbon. Some ...

The universe is the greatest organic chemistry experiment that’s ever been run. There isn’t a hydrocarbon anywhere that wasn’t born in the Big Bang, cooked up in the stars and blasted back into space ...

Here's a great (albeit a bit complex) example of how organic chemistry can improve medical applications. If you dare to read this, you'll see some clever chemistry that was used to improve the ...

Foul-smelling hydrogen sulphide may have been an important precursor in the chemistry that eventually led to life on Earth, a new study suggests. Modern analyses of samples archived from 1950s ...