One-quarter of photosynthesis-derived carbon on Earth rapidly cycles through a set of short-
lived seawater metabolites that are generated from the activities of marine phytoplankton …

Privileged structures have been widely used as an effective template in medicinal chemistry
for drug discovery. Chalcone is a common simple scaffold found in many naturally occurring …

Environmental sustainability criteria and rising energy demands, exhaustion of conventional
resources of energy followed by environmental degradation due to abrupt climate changes …

In response to the scarcity of non-renewable energy sources, sustainable and renewable
biofuels from biomass have gained utmost attention. Utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for …

Fluorine, often called as “a small atom with a big ego”, 1 lies in the second row and the 17th
column in the periodic table of the chemical elements. This unique position in the periodic …

Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms possess huge numbers of uncharacterized enzymes.
Selective inhibitors offer powerful probes for assigning functions to enzymes in native …

Highlights•Glycosidases carry out many essential functions across all domains of
life.•Activity-based probes can interrogate complex biological samples for glycosidase …

Plants contain numerous glycoconjugates that are metabolized by specific
glucosyltransferases and hydrolyzed by specific glycosidases, some also catalyzing …

Transition-metal-mediated fluoroalkylation is a hot research topic in current organofluorine
chemistry. In the past five years, due to the development of new perfluoroalkylation reagents …

Plant cell wall-derived biomass serves as a renewable source of energy and materials with
increasing importance. The cell walls are biomacromolecular assemblies defined by a fine …