Now he and his group have unveiled a three-component reaction that takes Suzuki coupling partners—an aryl halide and an arylboronic acid—and inserts a nitrogen between them to make an amine ...

The difference between classical reactions and this new reaction for making tertiary amines is like the difference between picking a specialty sandwich from a menu versus creating your own ...

Answer: the Maillard reaction. Discovered by French chemist Louis-Camille Maillard in 1912, the “reaction” is actually a complex series of steps that begins with the interaction between carbonyl ...

Matthew L. Dawson, Mychel E. Varner, Véronique Perraud, Michael J. Ezell, R. Benny Gerber, Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, Simplified mechanism for new particle formation from methanesulfonic acid, amines ...

Rate constants for the reaction of the hydrated electron with amino acids, peptides and proteins were measured. It was confirmed that in proteins, peptides, and esters or amides of amino acid (not ...