When it comes to eliminating toxic and expensive heavy metals in the chemical industry, a new study from the University of Würzburg points the way forward. The team led by chemistry professor Holger ...

New NMR experiments on synthetic granitic glasses show that the aluminum saturation index, not water or boron content, ...

Chemists from ETH Zurich have found a way to produce poorly soluble proteins by caging a uniquely reactive boron compound. This method opens up new possibilities for the synthesis of tailored protein ...

Boron, a metalloid element that sits next to carbon in the periodic table, has many traits that make it potentially useful as a drug component. Nonetheless, only five FDA-approved drugs contain boron, ...

Chemists created a boron-containing chemical group that is 10,000 times more stable than boron on its own. The advance could make it possible to incorporate boron into drugs and improve their ability ...

Feat hailed as 'significant and valuable contribution' to global research on magnetic confinement hydrogen-boron reactions In a first, a Chinese company has achieved high-parameter hydrogen-boron ...

Chemists seeking strange new structures from the main group of elements have bagged two long-sought species with boron at their cores. Researchers in Germany report the synthesis of the world’s first ...

Christine M. Le is in the Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada. Read the paper: A radical approach for the selective C–H borylation of azines Azines are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rio Tinto’s problems with its aluminium business are well documented. But things could have been worse without ...

De-Wei Gao's research group at ShanghaiTech University has developed a new method for efficient and highly selective boron-heteroatom functional group exchange reactions. Their method overcomes the ...

Proteins that are poorly soluble tend to clump together and have so far been nearly impossible to synthesise in the laboratory. ETH chemists have now found a way to link up poorly soluble protein ...