Amides and thioesters are ubiquitous compounds in chemistry, used for the production of medicines, natural products, and advanced materials. Traditionally, their synthesis is a messy business, ...

Researchers at the Biocatalysis group led by Dr Francesco Mutti at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of Amsterdam) have developed a novel use of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) ...

Alcohols are abundant in the universe of chemicals. But their strong C–O bond makes it tough to alter the motif without modifying it first. Seeking a quick method for transforming alcohols into a wide ...

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This experiment shows the synthesis of n-bromopropane, step by step. By reacting propan-1-ol with sodium bromide and sulfuric ...

Organic molecules are peppered with carbon-hydrogen bonds, and chemists have built up a fantastic toolbox of methods to break these bonds and put more useful functional groups in their place. This ...

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• Odd-numbered primary alcohols are components of plant cuticular wax, but their biosynthesis remains unknown. • We isolated a rice wax crystal-sparse leaf 5 (WSL5) gene using a map-based cloning ...