Chemists at UCLA have discovered a flaw in one of organic chemistry’s longstanding principles, challenging a rule that's ...

Scientists have just broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule and synthesized a type of 3D, unstable molecule called an ...

Neil Garg is leading the charge to rewrite a fundamental principle that's been part of organic chemistry since 1924 -- ...

The research team has successfully created molecules that violate Bredt's rule, opening up new possibilities in molecular ...

UCLA chemists have found a big problem with a fundamental rule of organic chemistry that has been around for 100 years—it's ...

The researchers created several different anti-Bredt olefins by making silyl precursors and then carrying out an elimination ...

Chemists Just Broke a 100-Year-Old Rule and Say It's Time to Rewrite the Textbooks Oct. 31, 2024 — According to Bredt's rule, double bonds cannot exist at certain positions on organic molecules ...

UCLA scientists just published a paper in the journal Science that disproves Bredt's rule, which has “constrained chemists ...

UCLA chemists have overturned a century-old rule in organic chemistry that limited molecular design by proving that ...

The work is “a landmark contribution”, says Craig Williams, a chemist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

"It destroys creativity when we have rules that supposedly can't be overcome," the California-based researchers said.

According to Bredt's rule, double bonds cannot exist at certain positions on organic molecules if the molecule's geometry deviates too far from what we learn in textbooks. This rule has constrained ...