Romantic love involves biochemical processes in which substances such as neurotransmitters, neuromodulators and hormones interact with other nerve cells or organs. When being in love, dopamine levels increases, generating ...

It is spicy, it makes us blush, but it also relieves pain. Capsaicin is the main component of chili pepper, an ingredient in so many dishes in our country.

This section contains a small compilation of news and events that took place in Peru and that are interesting from a chemistry perspective. Of 2013 we have highlighted the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the ANR prize to ...

The 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to A.Warshel, M.Levitt and M.Karplus for their contribution to the development of hybrid methods for computational chemistry. In this article a brief introduction about ...

The molecular design based on the imitation of the complex structures and processes found in nature is known as bioinspired Chemistry or biomimetic Chemistry. An approach used in this discipline is the preparation of ...

Determination of the stereochemistry of organic compounds has been a problem that the scientific community has been giving solution to over the years. Different methods have emerged, such as X-ray Diffraction or different ...

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Through history, the names of many molecules have changed. It is interesting to remember those forgotten names and to try to track their origin. There are also molecules that are not so well known and which have peculiar ...