Here are three examples of chemical reactions that highlight the fascinating and vital roles biomolecules play in the grand scheme of life. The term "hydrolysis" literally means "splitting by water." ...

Natural products (NPs) are an excellent source of biologically active molecules that provide many biologically biased features that enable innovative designing of synthetic compounds. NPs are ...

Illustration of intense pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser (left) heating compressed samples of hydrocarbons to extreme conditions, resulting in the reaction of gold and hydrogen to form gold ...

Molecular structure of the new 20-electron ferrocene derivative, highlighting nitrogen (blue), iron (orange), hydrogen (green), and carbon (grey) atoms. For over a century, the well-known 18-electron ...

With the exception of lithium, alkali metals do not react with elemental nitrogen either at ambient conditions or at elevated temperatures, requiring the search for alternative synthetic routes to ...

In this work, we introduce RGBChem, a novel approach for converting chemical compounds into image representations, which are subsequently used to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict ...

The United States maintains a complex and vital network of essential chemical imports from numerous countries worldwide. Each of these countries has carved out a niche in the production of specific ...

Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with global manufacturer Borealis Compounds, Inc. The EPA says this serves to resolve violations of chemical safety ...

Sulfites have been a popular scapegoat for all sorts of ailments since it became mandatory in the 1990s to label them on wines in the U.S. However, not much evidence links sulfites directly to ...

Researchers have used a chemical compound to light up treatment-resistant cancers on imaging scans, in a breakthrough that could help medical professionals better target and treat cancer. The authors ...