Cyclopropanes are a common motif in medicinal chemistry. Three-carbon rings show up in drug structures for conditions including asthma, psoriasis, and COVID-19. But despite its utility, cyclopropane ...

image: Recently, a new reactivity concept has been put forward by Suero et al. at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ). When studying a photoredox approach for the stereoconvergent ...

Chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring, using a catalyst to add phosphorus to simple organic compounds called alkenes. MIT chemists ...