Therefore, production of these alkanes from renewable biomass, such as biomass-derived fatty acids instead of fossil resources, is important for developing a sustainable energy supply. However ...

Alkanes are a primary component of fossil fuels ... The research team discovered that a particular class of confined chiral Brønsted acids, called imidodiphosphorimidate (IDPi), could address ...

Chemists have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable alkenes. Chemists from the National University of ...

We have converted cytochrome P450 BM-3 from Bacillus megaterium (P450 BM-3), a medium-chain (C12–C18) fatty acid monooxygenase, into a highly efficient catalyst for the conversion of alkanes to ...

In particular they and their team were looking for amino acids. They didn't find any, but they did find alkanes larger than any found on Mars thus far. These include decane (10 carbon atoms and 22 ...

converting short-chain fatty acids to their corresponding alkanes (gasoline) by introducing a novel synthetic pathway and optimization of culture conditions. Furthermore, the research team showed ...

The light-dependent enzyme, which originates from microalgae, has the particular characteristic that it can decarboxylate fatty acids into alkanes (thus converting cellulosic biomass into drop-in ...