Plants produce many pharmaceutically interesting compounds—but it can be hard to determine how they do it. Their metabolic pathways are complicated, with many by-products and dead ends. Researchers at ...

The relentless rise in antimicrobial resistance has spurred intensive research into novel antibacterial agents derived from nature. Antibacterial natural products such as albicidin and cystobactamids ...

Chemists at MIT say they have developed a new method to synthesize himastatin, a natural compound that has shown potential as an antibiotic. Using their new synthesis, the researchers were able not ...

For decades, organic chemists believed that each natural product scaffold required a custom synthesis. However, this assumption has been challenged by a study led by Hans Renata, associate professor ...

The Jingjing Wu group at the National Key Laboratory of Synergistic Materials Creation/Frontier Science Center for Transformative Molecules (FSCTM) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration ...

A new photochemical strategy enables direct macrolactone formation from hydroxyaldehydes through light-activated C–H bromination, generating versatile intermediates for constructing 7–21-membered ...