All Natural products articles – Page 4
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PodcastPotassium bitartrate
Brian Clegg with the winemaking byproduct that may be lurking in your larder
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Research
American Civil War era tea yields modern day medicine
Macrocyclisation strategy key to obtaining long known alkaloid with untapped potential
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Antimalarial plant's chlorophyll catalyses drug synthesis
New ‘green’ method makes malaria-fighting artemisinin’s synthesis faster and cheaper with industrial production planned for 2021
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Research
Encryption using carbon-13
New technique encrypts materials by altering levels of carbon-13 at regiospecific atoms
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News
Wanted: synthetic chemists (humans need not apply)
Automation could free chemists from tedious lab work – if they’re ready to think differently about research
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Research
Old and new spectroscopic techniques team up to decipher intricate alkaloids
Cutting-edge strategies set to increase our access to chemical space after researchers use them to verify unprecedented structures
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Opinion
Natural selection
Bioactive compounds don’t just inspire new synthetic strategies, they’re also the ultimate test
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Opinion
(‒)-Pavidolide B
An innovative approach to making five-membered carbon rings makes for a strikingly short synthesis
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Research
Route to fiendishly complex marine molecule cut in half
Shortcut to promising natural product already in Alzheimer’s and HIV trials
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Opinion
Forcing fluorines into shape
Sometimes unnatural molecules can be more challenging to synthesise than natural metabolites
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Research
Super-electrophilic ions enable selective modification of bioactive molecules
New technique will help medicinal chemists explore chemical space
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Opinion
That’s stereochemistry
Recognising the tetrahedral nature of carbon changed science as well as explaining it
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Research
Structural sleuthing salvages superbug slayer
Combining ‘assembly line’ synthesis, spectroscopy and computational predictions solves stereochemistry riddle
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Opinion
(+)-Pleuromutilin
Total synthesis is sometimes the only way to explore the chemical space around a natural product
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Research
Seductive sulfurs woo wasps
Amorous insect pollinators caught in the act with (methylthio)phenols
