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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...