I’m a big-time chemical and a clue to how chemists are celebrating Earth Week this year. What molecule am I? Formic acid is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its discovery in the distillation products of ...

A research group has developed an engineered E. coli strain that converts formic acid and CO2 to pyruvate and produces cellular energy from formic acid through reconstructed one-carbon pathways.

Formic acid constitutes a substantial fraction of the organic carbon in the atmosphere 11. Organic compounds in the gas phase have a key role in atmospheric oxidation reactions. They therefore ...