The term ‘aromatic’ was first used to describe organic compounds that have a pleasant smell, but now refers to a much broader categorization that encompasses entire classes of chemical. One of the ...

Figure 1: Chemical Birch reduction of benzoic acid and enzymatic benzoyl-CoA reduction. The CoA esters are embedded in a 20-Å-long funnel-like channel, with their six-membered rings buried in a ...

In 1825 Michael Faraday isolated a sweet-smelling chemical that he dubbed bi-carburet of hydrogen. That molecule, better known as benzene, is perhaps the most famous molecular ring in chemistry. Back ...