Perotto and colleagues took advantage of the thiol groups on the cysteine amino acids in keratin. They thought they could ...

The thing that makes mussel glue so tough and the thing that makes mucus so resilient are one and the same: the chemical bonds between their proteins, known as catechols and thiols. Catechols, which ...

Straightforward skeletal editing chemistry now enables the direct insertion of nitrogen into carbon–carbon double bonds.

Addressing the harmful chemical processes that accompany blunt force trauma to the brain can reduce the risk of long-term disability.

Taking advantage of two types of catechol-thiol bonds gave the new adhesive the strengths of both. By synthesizing their own mussel glue and combining it with the proteins in mucus, the ...

For their new work, the researchers focused on a chemical motif that appears in mussel adhesives: a bond between two chemical groups known as "catechols" and "thiols." In the mussel's natural glue ...

Carbon–heteroatom bonds are of great importance in organic ... of sp 3-hybridized benzyl or tertiary halides with soft thiol, alcohol and amine nucleophiles. Supramolecular nanoreactor as ...

The new work has advanced these efforts by concentrating on the bond between two chemical groups that give mussels their practically super-ability to cling onto rocks: catechols and thiols.