DURING recent years, several new amino- and imino-acids have been characterized ... The structure of this new amino-acid (hereafter termed βPA) is as follows: ...

Can eating fat be good for us? Some fatty acid molecules actually play a crucial role in maintaining our health and cellular functions. By the early twentieth century, scientists and doctors ...

In the BBC Radio 4 documentary Vitriolic, journalist Ayshea Buksh meets victims of acid attacks who have been scarred for life and had to undergo major surgery in their long recovery. Here she ...

An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and ...

Functional groups that may have to be determined include unsaturation, hydroxy, carbonyl, carboxyl, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, oxyalkylene, nitrile, ester, amino, nitro, amide, amido, imino, and epoxy ...

Mechanisms of rhodium and iridium catalysed methanol carbonylation The catalytic carbonylation of methanol to acetic acid is one of the most significant industrial applications of homogeneous ...