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 ...

(colorless) (purple) (colorless) (brown ppt.) 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 ...

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 ...