Making Waves: Using Water as a Solvent in Organic Chemistry

Making Waves: Using Water as a Solvent in Organic Chemistry

One of the challenges with synthetic organic chemistry is the use of the many types of materials needed to make a chemical reaction work. These include starting materials, substrates (the substance being modified), and solvents (the substance in which material is...

Coffee, Tea & Fluorous Biphasic Reactions

In 2002, my research colleagues and I published a paper in the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry that talked about our modification of the ligand that was used to create perfluoroalkyl rhenium(I) complexes, which would ultimately be used to reduce carbon dioxide to carbon...