Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists-Distinguished Professor Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, ...

One class of drugs that has shown promise in treating diseases ranging from lung cancer to COVID-19 are targeted covalent inhibitors (TCIs). These small molecule drugs form covalent bonds with their ...

Using an X-ray diffractor to study the sigma bond. Credit: Yusuke Ishigaki Covalent bonds, the very backbone of organic compounds, are formed when two atoms share a pair of electrons. Back in 1931, ...

The budding field of covalent biologics has made headway recently, as the only biotech pioneering the space has bagged $100 million in funding to move its pipeline to the clinic. American company ...

Proteins and polyphenols are abundant in the daily diet of humans and their interactions influence, among other things, the texture, flavor, and bioaccessibility of food. There are two types of ...

The properties of the bioactive solids are primarily dependent on the various types of noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen, tetrel, triel, π-stacking, cation-π and ...

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VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...