Illinois chemistry professor Marty Burke explains how his research group breaks down complex chemicals into simple "building blocks." His group recently discovered that thousands of molecules that ...

Scientists have created a novel technique that for the first time will allow the efficient production of a molecular structure that is common to a vast array of natural molecules. This advance ...

They occur in nature, are reactive and play a role in many biological processes: polyenes. It is no wonder that chemists have for a long time been interested in efficiently constructing these ...

RECENT studies on fruit and vegetable processing have shown some natural constituents of the material to be very sensitive to treatments, particularly heat. In the course of dehydration experiments ...