Commonly used by chemists as ligands for catalysts, cyclic imino ethers can also be polymerized to make materials that could help transport drugs into cells. Bart Verbraeken had been trying, ...

Ether is a product in which the hydrogen in the hydroxyl group of an alcohol or phenol is replaced by a hydrocarbon group. The general formula is R-O-R', and R and R' can represent the same or ...

Polyether molecules are characterized by a complex array of two or more cyclic ethers — oxygen-containing rings that, in polyether antibiotics, are typically composed of either five or six atoms. The ...

New research headed by Prof. Ji Qian and Prof. Renjie Chen (Department of Energy and Environmental Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology) demonstrates ...

Researchers have discovered how soil bacteria carry out surprising chemistry, defying a longstanding set of chemical rules and thus paving the way for new synthesis of polyether drugs. Researchers ...

This image shows the epoxide-opening cyclic ether formation catalyzed by Lsd19. The disfavored 6-endo-tet reaction is highlighted in red. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

In this review, our recent results on the concurrent cationic vinyl-addition and ring-opening copolymerization of vinyl ethers (VEs) and oxiranes are summarized, with particular emphasis on the ...