Nitrogen atoms are essential building blocks in many important chemical structures. Nitrogen-containing organic molecules are indispensable for various applications in such fields as medicine, ...

Catalysts with a metal-nitrogen bond can transfer nitrogen to organic molecules. In this process short-lived molecular species are formed, whose properties critically determine the course of the ...

Nitrogen is one of the most abundant elements on the planet, but until the turn of the 20th century nitrogen compounds were still hard to come by. So-called nitrogen fixation in compounds such as ...

HOUSTON - (Feb. 8, 2019) - Rice University scientists have given organic chemists a boost with their latest discovery of a one-step method to add nitrogen to compounds for drugs, pesticides, ...

Life needs nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. But without the right balance of oxygen, these elements get locked away in planets’ cores.

The development of new drugs or innovative molecular materials with new properties requires specific modification of molecules. Selectivity control in these chemical transformations is one of the main ...