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: ...

The history of ‘everyone’s favorite hexagon’ illustrates the resonance of basic science and how discoveries build over time ...