IN their criticism of our paper 1, Chesbro and Hedrick make some points that are indeed well taken. Their objection to the implication that bond-strength is a function of pH is undoubtedly valid ...

A challenge for chemists is trying to selectivity react one of two identical functional groups on the same molecule. For example, a diester with a long carbon chain in between the two ester groups ...

As the first member of her family to earn a college degree, Ester Flores knows the value of higher education. Today, she works for some of Texas’ top universities — including her alma mater ...

The sequence-specific cleavage of the peptide bond is a crucial procedure in protein engineering and purification. The extreme stability of this bond, with half-life for spontaneous hydrolysis ...