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

Carboxylic acid reductase naturally produces aldehydes, but the researchers found it can be used to efficiently produce esters instead when a co-substrate was changed. Supported content References ...

Researchers report that carboxylic acids, functional groups contained in biomolecules, drugs, and materials can be readily modified by light-induced organic reactions using an aminocyclopropenone.

Computational studies were conducted using the major levels of semiempirical, ab initio, density functional theory (DFT), and the CBS-Q//B3 method and various solvation models on a homologous ...

Succinic acid, once a biobased chemical star, is barely being made The fermentation-derived molecule, conceived in an era of high oil prices, became a victim of the shale revolution ...

MOTW update: September 25, 2023. Benzoic acid 1 is the simplest aromatic carboxylic acid and a commonly used preservative in foods and a snowflake mimic in holiday snow globes.. This past August, ...

Top five carboxylic acids market vendors. BASF. BASF offers 2-ethylhexanoic acid, formic acid, mandelic acid, and propionic acid. With the establishment of a production unit in Nanjing, ...

S cientists and laypeople alike have long wondered why mosquitoes are more attracted to some people than others. Growing evidence suggests that a person's unique odor plays a large role in determining ...

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit yellow fever and Zika, may be more attracted to people with high levels of carboxylic acids in their body odour By Jason Arunn Murugesu 18 October 2022 ...

Formic acid is also a major byproduct of acetic acid manufacture. Formic acid has a wide range of uses: in leather tanning, as a decalcifier and cleaning product, as a chemical reducing agent, as a ...