Origin of life researchers at Hebrew University show that fatty acids and hydroxy acids, when chemically bonded, form hybrid ...

Analysis of organic compounds -- called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) -- extracted from the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite has found that certain PAHs likely formed in the cold areas ...

Conventional methods for N-acylation of heterocyclic, nitrogen-containing compounds are notoriously inefficient, producing low yields and often involving preactivated reagents, strong metal bases and ...

Scientists have uncovered a strange hidden structure formed during the creation of metallocenes, a class of sandwich-like molecules used in everything from catalysis to medicine. The newly ...

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Chemists studying how life started often focus on how modern biopolymers like peptides and nucleic acids contributed, but modern biopolymers don't form easily without help from living organisms. A ...