Fundamental breakthroughs in the natural sciences are rare. Progress is usually made in small steps, with knowledge slowly accumulating as more pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Now, however, ...

Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. Two research teams working independently report the first examples of ...

IT is known that the molecular refraction, as defined by Lorenz–Lorentz, of liquid (non-aromatic and non-conjugated) organic compounds may be calculated with fair accuracy by summation of the atomic ...

As the saying goes, all good things take time – and this could be said to be especially true of major scientific breakthroughs. After nearly half a ...

Aromatic prenyltransferases (aPTases) transfer prenyl moieties from isoprenoid donors to various aromatic acceptors, some of which have the rare property of extreme enzymatic promiscuity toward both a ...