Two new skeletal editing techniques offer a way to create an array of nitrogen-containing rings. Nitrogen heterocycles are ...

A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl group (C=O) to a nitrogen atom. They're so ubiquitous that 117 of the top ...

The Silent Skeleton of Modern Medicine Amide bonds are the "bread and butter" of medicinal chemistry. These molecular linkages form the structural backbone of some of the world's most successful drugs ...

A partially purified enzyme extracted from the bladder of the toad, Bufo marinus L., was found to cleave the glycine amide moiety from oxytocin, 8-lysine-vasopressin, 8-arginine-vasopressin, and other ...

A study published in Small examined how modifying the surface charge of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) affects platinum (Pt) photodeposition and photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. The researchers ...

Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp. (MCG; Tokyo) has concluded a license agreement with SNF Group (Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France) regarding MCG Group’s N-vinylformamide (NVF) manufacturing technology. NVF ...

Extending or trimming the length of a drug molecule’s carbon backbone by just a couple of atoms can significantly alter its activity, even if nothing else in the structure changes. So reactions that ...

Meta's WhatsApp is now well established as one of the best apps for group chats. It works on lots of devices (including the web), it gives you more or less the same experience on Android and iOS, and ...

Quantitative Biology Research Group, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji-cho, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amide Technologies, a leading biotech company specializing in the synthesis of complex peptides, announced today the appointment of Dr. Brad Pentelute as its new CEO ...