Researchers have discovered a biosynthetic pathway that makes amino acids containing terminal alkynes. Because such functional groups are rare in natural products, they provide a handle for chemistry ...

In 2001, chemists K. Barry Sharpless, Hartmuth C. Kolb, and M. G. Finn introduced click chemistry, a concept in which organic ...

A collaborative academic-industry research team in the U.K. has devised a method to convert the terminal triple bond of an alkyne into a diester with the two ester groups at opposite ends of the ...

Tracking changes in the cellular composition of lipids is essential to understanding metabolic and signaling processes. Most of the studies so far have used radioactive 3 H-, 14 C- or 32 P-labeled ...

3-Hexyne, aka diethylacetylene, is a symmetric alkyne that is used in organic and organometallic synthesis. It first appeared in British patent 279,095 (1926) to Michael George Corson, who heated ...