A chemical compound is a chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemically bonded chemical elements, with a fixed ratio determining the composition. The ratio of each element is ...

Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

Organic small molecules with novel mechanisms of action (nMoAs) are needed to help address today's most challenging biomedical problems. In particular, potential disease-related molecular targets ...

Relative to its next-door neighbor carbon, boron is one electron short. And what a difference that makes! Carbon, with six electrons, is essential to life, while boron, with only five, is not. There ...