Trichomes, hair-like projections on leaves, of wild tobacco contain acyl sugars, which are composed of sucrose, bound to branched chain aliphatic acids. Hatched caterpillars consume these sweet ...

IN the forty-second Bedson Club Lecture delivered in King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prof. J. Kenner discussed the aliphatic diazo compounds. The observation that the naturally occurring amide ...

A research team reveals that the way plant residues transform into humic substances can profoundly reshape soil microbial ...

Organocatalysts consisting of organic compounds without metal elements are receiving much attention as next generation catalysts in the hope of reducing environmental burden and coping with exhaustion ...