All Comment articles – Page 15
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OpinionAsteriscunolide D
Medium rings are a beguiling feature found in a host of natural products, owing to their behavioural oddities. While the properties and synthesis of smaller rings (three to six atoms in size) are well known, and that of true macrocycles can at least be estimated, each medium ...
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OpinionDragmacidin D
Why do we make functional groups? That might come across as the dumbest question of the year, but there’s actually a point behind it. The majority of functional groups present in the synthetic intermediates in a synthesis don’t make it to the target - they are consumed, ...
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Opinion
Forgotten pioneers
Who were the women that first led the way for female professional chemists? Marelene and Geoff Rayner-Canham reveal the story