From life-saving drugs and synthetic polymers to diverse advanced materials, the products containing organic compounds seem endless, thanks in part to regioselectivity, a feature in chemical reactions ...

Harvard University’s Emily P. Balskus, Hitomi Nakamura, and Erica E. Schultz have discovered an enzyme, dubbed CylK, that accomplishes this same transformation during the biosynthesis of ...

DURING the past four years we have been investigating the mechanism of two closely allied reactions—the polymerization of isobutene and the dimerization of di-isobutene. Both these reactions are ...

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