Research into gas-phase Brønsted acids has yielded profound insights into proton donation processes devoid of solvation effects, allowing chemists to probe intrinsic acid strengths. This field ...

Kyoto, Japan -- Just when we thought alkenes could only react with alcohol to yield ethers in the presence of strong acids, hydroalkoxylation may not go by the book this time. Organic Chemistry 101 ...

Lewis acid strength, aka the alacrity with which a chemical species accepts electrons, is an important factor in the way that the compound will react. But unlike Brønsted acidity, the ability of an ...