(A) This is the structure of stearic acid, an 18-carbon saturated fatty acid. The normal numbering system, starting with the carboxylic acid, is shown in blue. The carbons and oxygens of the ...

To help students learn to recognize common organic functional groups when given chemical formulas and names, students can use an organic chemistry functional group playing card deck to play any card ...

Plant Ecology, Vol. 204, No. 2 (Oct., 2009), pp. 207-216 (10 pages) To effectively manage plant populations for conservation, there is a need to provide reliable information on the conditions required ...

Introduction Three percent of all biceps tendon ruptures occur at the distal aspect, the rupture typically occuring in middle aged males after an eccentric extension load is applied to the elbow.

A recent trend in historical archaeology has been toward ordering artifacts into functional groupings to facilitate pattern recognition (South 1977, 1978). Although such a procedure seems logical when ...

Aliphatic alcohols are cheap, widely available, and very stable building blocks for chemical synthesis and drug discovery. Now, a team of chemists has found a way to add functional groups to them in ...