Heterocycles are cyclic structures with at least one atom other than C and H. Most common heteroatoms are N, O and S. A large portion of natural products are heterocyclic compounds and some are being utilized as ...

Organic reactions are chemical processes that involve organic substances. The fundamental types of organic chemistry reactions include substitution reactions, elimination reactions, addition reactions, redox ...

Polymers play an important role in our day-to-day life. In Greek, poly means “many” and mer means “parts”. Polysaccharides, proteins and nucleic acids are the main bio-polymers/macromolecules. A large number of industries ...

Ionic liquids (ILs) are salts that exist in the liquid state below 100 o C or at room temperature. They are also referred to as molten salts, ionic fluids, liquid organic salts, neoteric solvents, and designer solvents

Cancer is the major cause of morbidity and mortality around the globe. Cancer shows a significant annual increase, approximately 30,000 new cases were recorded in 2021. It has become one of the major health burdens in ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, with a new breast cancer being diagnosed every 29 seconds. Metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype that responds poorly ...

Carbon monoxide is a good π-acceptor and the M-C bond in metal carbonyls [M(CO)n ] has a significant π character. Thus, the M-C bond is strengthened and the carbon oxygen bond is weakened with the increase in back bonding.

Metathesis of simple salts is a double replacement reaction as shown below. AX + BY → AY + BX In Greek, “Metathesis” is known as the change of position or transposition. Olefin metathesis (OM) is the catalytic scission ...

Bacterial and viral disease outbreaks have always been a threat to global public health, making affordable, rapid and accurate diagnostics highly important tools to slow down the spread of pathogens and decrease ...