Most organic drugs contain one acid group, usually a carboxylic acid, -COOH, or one basic primary, secondary, or tertiary amino group, NC 1-3, [3,22,27,28,29] that determines the acid-base ...

Scripps Research chemists have accomplished a long-elusive feat in synthetic chemistry: the invention of a broadly useful method for constructing "gamma chiral centers" on simple starting ...

Carboxylic acids are weak acids that react in the same ... Esters, fats and oils Esters are formed in condensation reactions and broken by hydrolysis. Fats and oils, important compounds in our ...