A team of chemists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has succeeded in pulling an oxygen atom from a molecule and replacing it with a nitrogen atom. In their study, published in ...

University of Chicago scientists are studying two possible ways to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule. Doing so would mean a huge breakthrough in pharmaceutical chemistry, ...

From left: UChicago chemists Mark Levin, Jisoo Woo, and Tyler Pearson discuss techniques to swap nitrogen atoms in molecules—a change often made by drug discovery chemists. Credit: Julia Driscoll For ...

Chemists offer two new methods to develop a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule. The findings could make it easier to develop new drugs. For years, if you asked the ...

Together, the two methods should enable medicinal chemists to make these single-atom substitutions in a swath of common molecules, easing efforts to generate analogues of drug candidates. “This is the ...

Hexanitrogen is a newly synthesized molecule composed entirely of nitrogen atoms, making it the first known neutral polynitrogen species other than N₂. It stores a large amount of energy in its ...

For years, if you asked the people working to create new pharmaceutical drugs what they wished for, at the top of their lists would be a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a ...