Tag: catalysis

  • Nation & World

    Break it up

    Researchers at Harvard and Cornell have discovered exactly how a reactive copper-nitrene catalyst could transform a strong carbon-hydrogen bonds into a carbon-nitrogen bond, a valuable building block for chemical synthesis.

    5 minutes
    Erving Professor of Chemistry Theodore A. Betley and graduate student Kurtis Carsch
  • Nation & World

    Turning tide on greenhouse gases

    Emissions from power plants and heavy industry, rather than spewing into the atmosphere, could be captured and chemically transformed from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into industrial fuels or chemicals thanks to a system developed by Harvard researchers.

    6 minutes
    Haotian Wang
  • Nation & World

    Catalyzing discovery

    In a trio of studies published earlier this month, researchers have shown that the process of catalysis is more dynamic than previously imagined, and that molecular forces can vastly influence the process.

    5 minutes