Straightforward skeletal editing chemistry now enables the direct insertion of nitrogen into carbon–carbon double bonds.

Photos © Michael Davidson and The Florida State University These photos show the 60-carbon alkene buckminsterfullerene ("buckyballs"). This substance joins graphite ...

Complete combustion of alkenes produces carbon dioxide and water, provided there is a plentiful supply of oxygen. Incomplete combustion of alkenes occurs where oxygen is limited and produces water ...

The researchers developed self-assembling small-molecule catalysts containing the metal palladium that can cleave a bond ...

(B) This is the structure of oleic acid, an 18-carbon unsaturated fat. The carbons of the alkene functional group, the site of unsaturation, are in the rounded rectangle. Since there is only one ...

A mild and simple method to access an important pharmaceutical scaffold, the bicyclohexane motif, has been developed using ...

A major advance in alkene oligomerization catalysis was Brookhart’s 1995 report of highly active group 10 metal diimine systems. In contrast to nickel and palladium catalysts, the corresponding ...

Such extensions will include the use of more complex ketones and alkenes for the simultaneous generation and control of multiple stereocenters. They focus upon the development of new methodology ...

They have the same number of each type of atom. They can be part of the same or different homologous series, e.g. alkenes and cycloalkanes can be isomers. Due to their different structures their ...

More information: Yan Li et al, Enantioselective alkene hydroalkylation overcoming heteroatom constraints via cobalt catalysis, Nature Synthesis (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00581-x ...

For example, an alkene - a class of hydrocarbon molecules that have at least one double bond between two carbon molecules - can react with water in the presence of acid to form an alcohol.