Figure 1: Chemical Birch reduction of benzoic acid and enzymatic benzoyl-CoA reduction. The CoA esters are embedded in a 20-Å-long funnel-like channel, with their six-membered rings buried in a ...

Earlier this month, Molecule of the Week brought you the venerable and extremely hazardous molecule benzene. This week’s molecule has one of the structures that was originally proposed for benzene: ...

Scientists have used computing power and clever modeling to solve a 200-year-old chemistry and math puzzle. For all these years, the question at play has been how to plot the electron structure of a ...