The Featured Molecules this month are the 20 standard α-amino acids found in proteins and serve as background to the paper by Barone and Schmidt on the Nonfood Applications of Proteinaceous Renewable Materials. The...

The mission of the JCE LivTexts collection is to make available to instructors of chemistry a coherent and organized body of materials that can be easily incorporated into the classroom and disseminated to students. The...

The molecules for this month come from the paper Glycosyltransferases A and B: Four Critical Amino Acids Determine Blood Type by Rose, Palcic, and Evans on structural factors determining blood type. Included are...

The paper Our Everyday Cup of Coffee: The Chemistry behind Its Magic by Marino Petracco provides a hearty blend of molecules for this month. The author deals with coffee at a number of different levels ranging from the...

The featured molecules of this month come from the article "Chemistry of Durable and Regenerable Biocidal Textiles" by Gang Sun and S. Dave Worley on the history and chemistry of biocidal textiles for use in the health...

Reactions of organic compounds involving reactive intermediates are outlined in this resource.

The featured molecules this month come from the paper The chemistry of moth repellents by Gabriel Pinto. Several of the molecules exhibit interesting structural features that students should explore. Hexachloroethane,...

The featured molecules this month come from "Chocolate: A Marvelous Natural Product of Chemistry" by Ginger Tannenbaum. As discussed in the article, chocolate is a natural food and is a mixture of many chemical...

About 150 common acronyms in organic chemistry are listed along with their full names and structures.

The document provides a detailed presentation to the theory of rejection of data using a Gaussian distribution The document discusses the conditions under which the Q-test is used. The exercises in the document give...