Natural products – Page 6
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ResearchRoute to complex amines holds drug development promise
New catalytic reaction yields products with three adjacent chiral centres
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Research‘Ginger-meter’ tests strength of spice samples
Electrochemical sensor used to detect gingerol compounds
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ResearchRing-locking holds the key to levoglucosan production
Functionalising sugars could help to unlock the potential of biomass in chemical synthesis
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ResearchArduous natural product quest's unwelcome end
Thousands of experiments help find conditions to make (–)-maoecrystal V
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ResearchMirror-image trick yields real hits from a virtual chemical library
Scientists use mirror-image protein to identify potential new drugs from a previously unexplored library of natural product enantiomers
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FeatureMolecule-making microbes
Extracting terpene drugs from plants is difficult and wasteful, so pharma companies are looking to biosynthesis, as Emiliano Feresin discovers
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ResearchSmorgasbord of chemical blueprints located in plain pond algae
Transcriptome sequencing reveals Euglena’s unexpected metabolic capabilities
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FeatureOrganic odysseys
Andy Extance looks at two drugs that cranked the synthetic challenge all the way up to Halaven
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ResearchEspresso maker brews up tasty extraction
Household appliance isolates flu drug raw material from star anise while minimising pigment contamination
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ResearchTerpene analogues bear safer pesticides
Synthetic biology route to new versions of natural products, with surprising biological activities
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FeatureHigh hopes
Cannabinoids are finally coming out of the shadows and onto the shelves of pharmacies around the globe. Rachel Brazil reports
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FeatureChemistry in bloom
Sarah Houlton discovers the chemistry among the specimens at many botanical gardens
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ResearchPainkiller found in plants may not be natural after all
Cow pats from cattle fed tramadol could explain how the drug came to be in an African herb
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PodcastChemistry World podcast - September 2014
We speak to Paul Clarke about the challenges of natural product synthesis and discuss the pros and cons of perovskite solar cells
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FeatureUnpicking natural product synthesis
Is total synthesis in danger of a decline? Nina Notman investigates
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