The chemistry behind ethanol and gasoline tells a slightly different story than the one most commonly told by proponents on both sides of the ethanol debate. Should ethanol investors be worried about ...

As cellulosic ethanol becomes more and more a front-runner to help reduce the country's "addiction to oil," the high cost of producing it still stands as one of the major hurdles. But now, researchers ...

I would like to comment on your guest editorial in the Feb. 13, 2023, issue by Michael McCoy re chemical comeback stories we like (page 2). In the editorial, he says one of his first stories for C&EN, ...

European Chemicals Agency concludes ethanol safe for disinfection but makes no decision on whether it is carcinogenic or ...

Applying a single dose of natural compounds to sugarcane crops can lead to subtle cell-wall changes that can significantly improve yields in second-generation ethanol, or ethanol produced from ...

If legend is to be believed, three disparate social forces in early 20th-century America – the temperance movement, the rise of car culture, and the Scots-Irish culture of the South – collided with ...

Rodents that had been exposed to stress had a weakened alcohol-induced dopamine response and voluntarily drank more alcohol compared to controls, a new study has found. The blunted dopamine signaling ...

The scope of dynamic combinatorial chemistry is somewhat limited by the small number of predictably reversible reactions. Now, secondary alcohols are shown to quickly and reversibly react with iminium ...