Amines are ubiquitous in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and a nickel-based catalyst has now opened up a promising route to make these molecules from widely-available nitrile compounds ...

The catalytic hydration of nitriles to amides represents an essential transformation in organic chemistry, offering an atom-economical pathway to synthesise amides that find applications in ...

Hydrocyanation is a go-to reaction for converting an alkene to a nitrile, which is one of the most versatile functional groups available to chemists. The process is used industrially to produce ...