DURING the past four years we have been investigating the mechanism of two closely allied reactions—the polymerization of isobutene and the dimerization of di-isobutene. Both these reactions are ...

Polymerisation mechanisms are fundamental processes in chemistry that describe how small molecules, known as monomers, combine to form larger, more complex structures called polymers. Recent ...

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Cuts to funding for a GCSE course which teaches students road safety have been reversed. Grants to schools to teach a GCSE in Motor Vehicle and Road User Studies were axed in 2023, alongside other ...

Graft copolymers belong to the general class of segmented copolymers and generally consist of a linear backbone of one composition and randomly distributed branches of a different composition. They ...

Medicinal chemists have been responsible for many of our modern medicines. Their central contribution to developing new therapeutic agents against microbial infections, cancer and heart disease has ...

Chemistry is a core science subject that touches almost every aspect of our daily lives and will become increasingly important in our future knowledge-based society. Chemists develop life-saving drugs ...