(Phys.org)—During brewing, beer obtains its bitter flavor from the bitter acids that come from hops. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists now report that they have used X-ray crystallography ...

A team of researchers from several institutions in Czech Republic has developed a way to determine the absolute stereochemistry (3-D spatial configuration) of small, organic molecules. In their paper ...

THANKS largely to the extensive researches of Levene and his collaborators, it now appears to be well established that, as suggested by Clough in 1918 1, the naturally occurring α amino-acids all ...