Fatty acids are the molecular building blocks that form the lipids essential for life. While some lipids form cell membranes, others are present naturally as triglycerides in body fat and the waxes on our hair and skin.
Biochemistry
Jul 7, 2023
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It is hard to imagine our daily lives without plastics made out of polyolefins. Unfortunately, practical methods for recycling of polyolefins are lacking. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research team has now introduced ...
Polymers
Jun 19, 2023
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Newly synthesized organic molecules can be tuned to emit different colors depending on their molecular structures in crystal form.
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 7, 2023
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Insect sexual communication relies to a significant extent on pheromones, chemical attractants that specifically allow males and females of a species to mate. Sex pheromones are distinctive to males and females of a species. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2023
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Scientists have demonstrated in a new study that carbon-based molecules can be much more dynamic than previously thought.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2023
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Researchers from Bochum and Leipzig have successfully used a soil bacterium to specifically produce prodrugs. The key to this step was a detailed understanding of the metabolization of indole. The natural compound is first ...
Biochemistry
Mar 7, 2023
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Graduate student Colin Kim had been making good progress on a scientific puzzle that had fascinated him since he joined Whitehead Institute Member Jing-Ke Weng's lab, trying to understand how coumarin synthase (COSY), an ...
Biochemistry
Feb 7, 2023
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A team of Boston College researchers has demonstrated an unprecedented catalytic approach that enables concurrent control of multiple convergences and selectivities in intermolecular amination of allylic carbon-hydrogen bonds ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 2, 2023
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Chemists from the University of Groningen have found a simple way to produce previously inaccessible chiral Z-alkenes, molecules that offer a significant synthetic short-cut for the production of bioactive molecules.
Biochemistry
Jan 13, 2023
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Creating new synthetic compounds is often a complex and multi-step process that can take years of research. Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Baylor University ...
Polymers
Dec 15, 2022
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