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 ...

Photocatalysts facilitate chemical reactions by absorbing light. Metal-based photocatalysts are widely used in organic ...

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 ...

Macrolactones—large ring lactones—are core components of many natural products and pharmaceutical agents. Traditional synthetic routes rely on seco acids activated with condensing reagents, often ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a presenter, you will receive a certificate of participation at ACS Meetings. Abstracts will be listed in the CAS database and can be added to your Google Scholar profile. The symposium will ...

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

Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...