As a recent leap in green chemistry, scientists have unveiled a new catalyst that enables high yields of sulfones using molecular oxygen -- at close to room temperature. By fine-tuning the ...

Control of stereogenic oxygen in a helically chiral oxonium ion. Nature, 2023; 615 (7952): 430 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05719-z ...

Key Concepts For a liquid to dissolve a solid, the molecules of the liquid and solid must attract one another. The bond between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms (O–H bond) in sugar (sucrose) gives the ...