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 ...

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 ...

an 18-carbon saturated fatty acid. The normal numbering system, starting with the carboxylic acid, is shown in blue. The carbons and oxygens of the carboxylic acid functional group are red.

Researchers found that plants produce Δ1-piperideine-6-carboxylic acid (P6C) as part of lysine breakdown, mirroring a process in humans where elevated P6C levels are linked to pyridoxine ...

Iowa State University researchers evaluated imidazolium-based ZILs with sulfonate and triflimide anions to understand the ...