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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University scientists have mapped the entire pathway plants use to create benzoic acid, a precursor to a number of important compounds. Natalia Dudareva, Distinguished ...

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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, ...