This is not the first time that chemists have made an alkyl chloride from an olefin, Ritter says. “There are a lot of other robust, cheaper methods than what we have here,” he says.

This electrocatalytic method was first published in 1902 and involves using an electric potential to drive the decarboxylation of a carboxylic acid, producing a carbocation that an alcohol ...

Blending two or three alkyl-π liquids enables precise tuning of their physical, chemical, and electronic properties, including uniform photoluminescent color, without aggregation or inconsistency.