For decades, researchers have tried to cocrystallize caffeine and benzoic acid. The combination is of interest for potential pharmaceutical applications such as headache treatments. Although ...

Benzoic acids are precursors of xanthone biosynthesis which has been studied in cell cultures of Hypericum androsaemum (Hypericaceae) and Centaurium erythraea (Gentianaceae). In both cell cultures, ...

Fermentative production of benzoic acid is seldom reported and the present report serendipitously expressed it, though in small quantity (∼30 mg/l). Lipoxygenases (LOXs) catalyse the stereo-specific ...

Chemists have discovered a way to use light and oxygen to upcycle polystyrene -- a type of plastic found in many common items -- into benzoic acid, a product stocked in undergraduate and high school ...

Benzoic acid, the simplest benzene-based carboxylic acid, has been known since the 16th century. One of its discoverers was the legendary clairvoyant Nostradamus. Its most common natural source is gum ...