Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into ...

Carboxylic acids can carry out the same reactions as other acids, for example the reactions with metals and metal carbonate. Carboxylic acids are weak acids, and will react more slowly than other ...

Citing previous research into the attractiveness of carboxylic acid, a molecule that is part of the skin’s moisturizing layer, the Rockefeller scientists performed a chemical analysis looking ...

α-aminobutyric acid) and other carboxylic acids (fumaric acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid) were found. The formation of hydrogen cyanide was also confirmed in the reaction mixture.

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

The new method enables what had been impossible except in narrow cases: creating a center of chiral asymmetry at a hard-to-reach position called the "gamma" position on a cyclic carboxylic acid ...

Catalytic conversion of waste CO2 into value-added fuels and chemicals offers unprecedented opportunities for both ...

Innovative catalyst design enhances CO2 reduction efficiency by stabilizing the *COOH intermediate, revealing the impact of ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into energy—may have been born in deep ...