Natural products – Page 4
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PodcastIron sulfides
One mineral form may look like gold, but Brian Clegg isn't fooled by the value of iron sulfides
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PodcastPotassium bitartrate
Brian Clegg with the winemaking byproduct that may be lurking in your larder
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ResearchAmerican Civil War era tea yields modern day medicine
Macrocyclisation strategy key to obtaining long known alkaloid with untapped potential
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ResearchAntimalarial 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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ResearchEncryption using carbon-13
New technique encrypts materials by altering levels of carbon-13 at regiospecific atoms
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NewsWanted: 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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ResearchOld 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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OpinionNatural 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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ResearchRoute to fiendishly complex marine molecule cut in half
Shortcut to promising natural product already in Alzheimer’s and HIV trials