Carboxylic acids are ubiquitous in bioactive organic molecules and readily available chemical building blocks. Carboxylic ...

While sight is often a helpful heuristic, it tells you next to nothing for whiskey. Expert Chris Blatner gives us details on what a quick look might miss.

For example, consider the boiling points of two esters and their component alcohols and carboxylic acids: Alcohol Carboxylic acid Ester Ethyl alcohol - 78ºC Acetic acid - 118 ºC Ethyl acetate 88ºC ...

Chemists have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable alkenes.

The team uncovered a low-temperature synthetic pathway for the production of glyceric acid, a simple sugar acid that's essential to metabolism — the process by which organisms break down food into ...

Oxidation of food Primary alcohol molecules can be oxidised into aldehydes and carboxylic acids while secondary alcohols are oxidised to ketones. Antioxidants are added to food to prevent them ...

An alcohol is a carbon compound which contains the hydroxyl group. Alcohols are used as fuels and solvents. Carboxylic acids are used in the preparation of soaps, medicines and preservatives.

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable ...