Carboxylic acids are weak acids that react ... Proteins Proteins are condensation polymers, made of amino acid monomers and are hydrolysed by our bodies. Aldehydes and ketones are compounds ...

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a notorious greenhouse gas and also a promising building block in synthetic chemistry due to its abundance, easy availability, nontoxicity, and recyclability. However, the ...

The new method enables what had been impossible except in narrow cases: creating a center of chiral asymmetry at a hard-to-reach position called the "gamma" position on a cyclic carboxylic acid.