New technology developed by Professor Zhongwei Chen at the University of Waterloo could make a significant difference in the fight against climate change by affordably converting harmful carbon dioxide into fuels and other valuable chemicals on an industrial scale.

This post accompanies the Nature Reviews Chemistry comment piece  ‘Planning a Family’ and is written by Prof. Dave Smith with the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry Network.

Dipoles can upend what we know about how charged macromolecules self-assemble. This finding upends our understanding of how some of life’s basic structures are built.

By combining electricity and Pd catalysis, the first example of an asymmetric allylic pyrdinylation reaction was reported with 4-CN-pyridne as the pyridine source. The Pd catalyst acts not only as the transition-metal catalyst but also as an electron-transfer catalyst.