To illustrate the concepts of organic molecules, let's consider two examples: ...

The general formula for alkanes is CnH2n+2. The formula CnH2n corresponds to alkenes (with one double bond) or cycloalkanes ...

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BP plc BP, the British oil and gas major, has made a new hydrocarbon discovery in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia. The discovery was initially reported by Rhino Resources, an African exploration and ...

With growing concerns over fossil fuel depletion and the environmental impacts of petrochemical production, scientists are actively exploring renewable strategies to produce essential industrial ...

When Kimberly Pimentel first walked into the newly leased commercial space in downtown Eugene’s Miner Building, it was bare and white with ugly lights, a cold cement floor and a large architectural ...

Talos Energy Inc. discovered hydrocarbons in the Daenerys exploration well in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico and is planning an appraisal well to further define the discovered resource. The discovery ...

One of America's favorite candies has been shunned by authorities in the United Kingdom, who claim it is "unsafe to eat." The U.K.'s Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced a stern advisory against ...

A team of chemists and astronomers have made a discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever detected in space.

Organometallic compounds tend to marry metals with aromatic hydrocarbons so that the metal sits above or below the carbon-based group’s flat plane and interacts with the hydrocarbon’s p orbitals. The ...