Methods to assemble alkynes are essential for synthesizing fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and polymeric photo-/electronic materials. Using light as a clean energy form and water as a green solvent ...

A collaborative academic-industry research team in the U.K. has devised a method to convert the terminal triple bond of an alkyne into a diester with the two ester groups at opposite ends of the ...

Researchers have discovered a biosynthetic pathway that makes amino acids containing terminal alkynes. Because such functional groups are rare in natural products, they provide a handle for chemistry ...