Figure 1: Challenges and application potentials for the palladium-catalysed Markovnikov alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes. In addition to ethene, propene and butene are the most important industrial ...

Crude oil is a finite resource. Petrol and other fuels are produced from it by fractional distillation. These fuels are non-renewable resources. Cracking helps match supply of fractions with demand.

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE chemistry students studying addition polymerisation, alcohols and reactions of alkenes. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got you!

Liang Deng's group at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently discovered that a ...

Researchers from the School of Chemistry have led a study which, for the first time, reports the discovery of a unique way to control and modify a type of compound widely used in medicines, including ...