Scientists are calling for changes to chemistry textbooks after discovering a fundamental aspect of structural organic chemistry has been incorrectly described for almost 100 years. The team from ...

But on closer inspection, this interpretation is counter-intuitive. Carbon is slightly more electronegative than hydrogen (2.52 versus 2.20 on the Pauling scale), meaning that an alkyl group should ...

Molecular Structure: The presence of the hydroxyl group is pivotal in defining the characteristics of alcohols. The general formula for alcohols is R-OH, where R represents an alkyl or aryl group.

A team from Cardiff University’s School of Chemistry used advanced computational methods to analyse the distribution of electrons in molecules with alkyl groups. And their findings, published in ...

Tsuji and Konishi [91] extended this method to the identification of base compounds and the determination of their oxyethylene and oxypropylene group contents. In this method the cleavage reagent ...