Broader Context: Small molecule therapeutics are a staple of modern medicine. Most small molecule medicines are synthesized from simpler chemicals by pharmaceutical chemists. Organic synthesis is a ...

Researchers develop a one pot process to transform aromatic ketones to esters, offering advancements in pharmaceutical synthesis and materials science. Aromatic ketones have traditionally been ...

Scientists have been naming ideas, theorems, discoveries, and so on after other scientists for a very long time (Newton’s laws of motion, anyone?). Chemists are no different. They’ve been naming ...