Benzoic acid1 is the simplest aromatic carboxylic acid and a commonly used preservative in foods and a snowflake mimic in holiday snow globes. This past August, Yifan Meng, Richard N. Zare*, and ...

p -Aminobenzoic acid (PABA) is a bifunctional aromatic molecule that occurs naturally via bacterial production in animals’ digestive systems and plants’ chloroplasts. It is particularly abundant in ...

It converts benzyl benzoate into the molecule benzyl salicylate. Crucially, all three groups confirmed that this enzyme acts specifically on benzyl benzoate rather than on benzoic acid.

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 22, No. 72 (August 1971), pp. 598-612 (16 pages) The effects of chlorine substitution on the movement of phenoxyacetic and benzoic acids through ...

Correction, 11/4/2021: A previous version of this story mistakenly noted that ammonia, one of the two compounds identified in the Mars’ dirt sample, was an organic molecule when, in fact, it is ...