"Onions contain amino acids known as cysteine sulfoxides," says Bryan Quoc Le, Ph.D., a consultant and author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered. When the onion tissue is cut, chopped, or torn, ...

Cutting onions is a common kitchen task that many of us undertake regularly, yet it often comes with an unwanted side effect: tears. The sulfuric compounds released when onions are cut can irritate ...

We also examined a series of aryl allyl sulfoxides and demonstrated that the rearrangement pathway to disulfides could be favored by using electron-withdrawing aryl groups (like para-nitrophenyl) to ...

Kanika Narang, Dietitian, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, explains the science behind traditional diet logic ...

The pharmacokinetics of promethazine hydrochloride after administration of rectal suppositories at three dosage strengths and oral syrup were studied. The study had an open-label, randomized ...

and a highly efficient method for the asymmetric oxidation of alkyl aryl sulfides to the corresponding sulfoxides. We are also interested in solid phase chemistry, and the application of combinatorial ...