To help students learn to recognize common organic functional groups when given chemical formulas and names, students can use an organic chemistry functional group playing card deck to play any card ...

It has been said that plants are the world's best chemists. They can synthesize an immense diversity of molecules based on innumerable chemical- backbone structures and combinations of ...

The chemical reactivity of molecules is a central theme in modern chemistry, guiding the design and synthesis of new compounds and materials. Density Functional Theory (DFT) has emerged as a robust, ...

Researchers have engineered bacteria to synthesize an amino acid that contains a rare functional group that others have shown to have implications in the regulation of our immune system. The ...

Amino acids are the individual building blocks of proteins and are essential for biological systems to work properly. There are 20 standard amino acids that make up proteins in all living systems, ...

Researchers have found a way to precisely control contaminants in nanopores that would ultimately benefit desalination techniques, carbon dioxide storage and porous catalysts. (Nanowerk News) Natural ...

In this study, the researchers focused on para-nitro-L-phenylalanine (pN-Phe), a non-standard amino acid that is neither one of the twenty standard amino acids nor been observed in nature. pN-Phe has ...