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Richmond Sarpong from the College of Chemistry received the 2021 Edward Leete Award on Thursday for his research and teachings within the field of organic chemistry.

The Edward Leete Award acknowledges exceptional teaching and research contributions in the field of organic chemistry,...Read more about Campus professor Richmond Sarpong receives 2021 Edward Leete Award

The College of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professor of Chemistry Richmond Sarpong has been announced as the...Read more about Richmond Sarpong receives ACS Edward Leete Award for 2021

Interior, Hearst Mining Building. (Photo: Joe Parks via Wikimedia Commons)

Samuel Benedict Christy, Professor of mining and metallurgy and a...Read more about Samuel Benedict Christy, first dean of mining and metallurgy

The First Faculty in the Dept of Chemical Engineering:

Undated photo of Philip Schutz while he was a professor at Columbia University. (Courtesy University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University...Read more about In Memoriam: Philip Schutz

Markita del Carpio Landry, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley has been announced as a...Read more about Markita Landry awarded Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named Kwabena Bediako, The Cupola Era Professor in the College of Chemistry, a 2021...Read more about Kwabena Bediako named Moore Fellow

Team SSwEET was one of three finalists in NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge. The UC Berkeley team will receive more than $240,000 to improve its electrochemical process for making sugar in space using only carbon dioxide. From left to right, chemistry professor Peidong...Read more about Team wins competition to make space sugar in NASA competition

Invention Interview with Chris Chang: Molecular Iron Electrocatalyst for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide (2021)Read more about Chris Chang discusses molecular iron electrocatalyst for the reduction of carbon dioxide

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A reaction that kicks out a single nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom from six-membered rings using only blue light has been developed by US scientists.

The method involves breaking the C–N, C–O or C–S bond in saturated heterocycles...Read more about Using light-initiated radical reaction to break the carbon-heteroatom bond

Professor Kristala L. Jones Prather. Photo courtesy MIT.

Metabolic engineers have a problem: cells are selfish. The scientists want to use microbes to produce chemical compounds for industrial applications. The microbes prefer to concentrate on their own growth.

...Read more about Building a better chemical factory—out of microbes