Training the Future Organic Chemistry Researcher

Recent Discoveries and Future Challenges in Atmospheric Organic Chemistry.

Earth's atmosphere contains a multitude of organic compounds, which differ by orders of magnitude regarding fundamental properties such as volatility, reactivity, and propensity to form cloud droplets, affecting their impact on global climate and human health. Despite recent major research efforts and advances, there are still substantial gaps in understanding of atmospheric organic chemistry, ...

The Future of Prebiotic Chemistry

Here is a puzzle: in what area of organic synthesis research are synthetic organic chemists a minority? According to Albert Eschenmoser, it is in the field of prebiotic chemistry: the study of the reactions and molecules that led to the emergence of life on earth. Biologists, mathematicians, and astronomers have traditionally weighed in on this problem proportionally more than organic chemists....

Hypothesis: the research page. One researcher, two researcher, three researcher, four. Five researcher, six researcher, seven researcher, more!

Organic chemistry in water.

Water has emerged as a versatile solvent for organic chemistry in recent years. Water as a solvent is not only inexpensive and environmentally benign, but also gives completely new reactivity. The types of organic reactions in water are broad including pericyclic reactions, reactions of carbanion equivalent, reactions of carbocation equivalent, reactions of radicals and carbenes, transition-met...

Organic Chemistry 215H

In the 1950’s Francis Crick formulated the “central dogma of molecular biology” in which information flows from DNA to RNA and finally to protein. Although certain exceptions to this model have emerged over the past 50 years, such as the discovery of RNA as the source of genetic information in certain viruses and the role of catalytic RNA in translation, this formulation has proved to be nearly...