A Less Hazardous Means to Create Phosphorus Compounds: Scientists have identified a precursor that helps convert phosphorus into a range of useful compounds, all the while bypassing the need for ...

Phosphorus is found in everything from matches to fertilizer—and may be critical to starting the spark of life and keeping it going. Scientists studying the origin of life in the universe often focus ...

Tetrahedranes are highly strained hydrocarbons with tetrahedral cores. Such molecules could serve as high-energy materials and building blocks, but they are difficult to make and isolate. To make the ...

IN isolated metathoraxes of the cockroach Periplaneta americana, 85 per cent of the mass of which is formed by the thoracic muscles, changes in various fractions of acid-soluble phosphorus compounds ...

ONE of the most fascinating problems of organic chemistry consists in the attempt to prepare compounds the molecules of which are devoid of planes of symmetry, and are therefore capable (like a screw ...

Chemists have long been enamored with nitrogen fixation, the process nature employs to help plants capture atmospheric nitrogen and convert it to ammonia for use as a nutrient. Besides the famous ...

Initially, the authors discovered that using weakly nucleophilic hexafluoroisopropanol as the nucleophile enabled the selective synthesis of trivalent phosphorus at a high current density of 44.4 ...

Until recently, the existence of 'blue' phosphorus was pure theory: Now a team was able to examine samples of blue phosphorus at BESSY II for the first time and confirm via mapping of their electronic ...

Carbon, with its myriad compounds, is the backbone of life and the central element of organic chemistry. The number of bonds a carbon atom forms with other elements in a compound determines its ...

We tend to think of life as being about carbon and oxygen—but that's missing a crucial workhorse of our bodies and every other living thing: phosphorus. The element is a key ingredient of DNA, its ...