Bergman thought that the more reactive carbon-metal bond could allow chemists to add new functional groups to the alkane. Before this paper, chemists had seen this kind of C–H activation only ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The alkanes are a homologous series with a structure based on a carbon chain - each carbon atom forms four covalent ...

RIKEN chemists have hit upon a fast and easy way to combine so-called nanobelts of carbon with sulfur-containing functional groups. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications.