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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Chemists from HSE University and the Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS RAS) have developed a new method for synthesising amides, essential ...