two teams of chemists working independently have each come up with a new approach to filling the nitrogen-sized hole in the alkene cleavage toolbox. Both methods break carbon-carbon double bonds ...

The carbons of the alkene functional group, the site of unsaturation, are in the rounded rectangle. Since there is only one double bond, oleic acid is an example of a monounsaturated fatty acid.

Reaction of an alkene with aqueous potassium permanganate results in addition of two hydroxyl groups to each side of the double bond to form a glycol. To Conduct Demonstration: Pour two samples of ...

In a stunning achievement that saw two top-notch science journals each publish one article from Peking University on the same day, March 6, Nature published a study led by Kong Wei, professor from the ...

This reaction can also be viewed as alkene ‘hydroacylation,’ the addition of a hydrogen and an acyl group across a double bond. Our initial research in this area will focus upon understanding the ...