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Chemistry World April 11, 2014 |
The sultan of synthesis Phil Baran is spurring organic chemists to rethink how they make complex compounds, as Mark Peplow discovers |
Chemistry World March 21, 2007 Alison Stoddart |
Synthesis Strategy Offers no Protection A radically different approach to constructing complex molecules could help to tap the pharmaceutical potential of natural products. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
New Hope for Anticancer Agent The mode of action of a rare natural product with promising cytotoxic activity has been revealed by scientists in the US while a UK group have come up with a particularly efficient chemical synthesis. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2013 Michael Parkin |
Flow synthesis for anticancer drug UK chemists have used a combination of flow chemistry methods with solid-supported scavengers and reagents to synthesize the active pharmaceutical ingredient, imatinib, of the anticancer drug Gleevec. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2006 Michael Gross |
Synthesis Success After 30 Years Chemists at Harvard have succeeded in synthesizing the antibiotic moenomycin A from scratch. They hope that by providing easier access to this molecule and its variants, they might aid the development of new antibiotics based on its structure. |
Bio-IT World August 18, 2004 Kevin Davies |
In Praise of Chemical Diversity How to build better small-molecule libraries. |
Chemistry World November 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Total synthesis is not immune to the vagaries of fickle fashion. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2011 David Barden |
Rapid Route to Huperzine A US chemists have devised an efficient synthesis of a natural product with great potential as a protectant against chemical warfare agents and in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Bryostatin Synthesis Made Simple US chemists have dramatically shortened the synthesis of byrostatin 16, one of a family of natural products that show promising activity against cancer but can't easily be extracted from nature or made artificially. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2012 Samantha Cheung |
A sweeter approach to sugar synthesis Sugar chemists have developed a highly efficient synthetic pathway to produce a variety of oligosaccharides from scratch. |
Chemistry World April 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Recruiting electrophiles for organic cross-coupling Chemists in the US have taken an unconventional approach to carbon cross-coupling and in doing so have potentially opened the door to the rapid and efficient synthesis of a wide range of organic compounds. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Kevin Rogers |
What future for small molecule therapy? Pharmaceutical companies overlook bench chemists at their peril |
Chemistry World May 23, 2011 James Mitchell Crow |
Hatching a plan to kill worm pests A parasitic pest that can devastate entire fields of vegetable crops is a step closer to being brought under control, thanks to the synthesis of a compound that tricks its eggs into hatching early. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Natural products can be ridiculously complicated. The sheer difficulty of the enterprise is traditionally what made pharmaceutical companies hire people who had worked in total synthesis. But, is total synthesis research still worth the effort? |
Chemistry World November 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple? |
Chemistry World March 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
New synthesis for chiral anticancer compound The promising anticancer compound nutlin-3 is likely to become more widely available to researchers thanks to a new synthetic protocol developed by US chemists. |
Chemistry World July 9, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
'Molecular cobra' turns C-H to C=C A reagent developed by US chemists can selectively introduce synthetically useful C=C double bonds into unactivated carbon chains, guided by an activating group attached to a nearby oxygen or nitrogen atom. |
Chemistry World May 22, 2015 James Urquhart |
Complex amines made easy (and cheap) Phil Baran's lab at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, has come up with a protocol that repurposes two readily available and inexpensive feedstock building blocks; olefins and nitroarenes, via iron-catalysed cross-coupling. |
Chemistry World July 14, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Natural Products Made Via a Single Parent Molecule Chemists in the US have taken inspiration from nature to devise a new concept for rapidly and efficiently synthesising structurally diverse natural products from a single common precursor. |
Chemistry World August 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Azadirachtin Sees First Total Synthesis A complex natural product has finally succumbed to its first total synthesis after 22 years of attempts by eminent organic chemists. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 |
Put the chemistry back in medicinal chemistry Today, synthetic skill is valued and appreciated much less in medicinal chemistry than in chemical development, though it is equally important for both. Much of the blame lies with the mismeasurement of productivity. |
Chemistry World July 7, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Eight Steps to Foil Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria U.S. scientists have synthesised by a new route a key intermediate for the production of synthetic analogues of natural antibiotic tetracyclines that could be used as potential new drugs to combat the growing ranks of antibiotic resistant bacteria. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Pactamycin A member of a 'rival' field stating that a molecule is 'inaccessible by synthetic organic chemistry' is like a red rag to the proverbial bull. This challenge surrounds analogs of pactamycin, a complex cyclopentane-based target with an exceptionally potent biological profile. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2012 James Urquhart |
Simple One Stop Shop for Difluoromethylation A new process developed by researchers opens the way for adding difluoromethyl (CF 2H) groups to drugs and agrochemicals in order to enhance their properties. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2009 Tom Bond |
Catalyst free carbon-carbon bond formation The method offers an environmentally friendly way to form one of the most important bonds in organic synthesis. |
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Strychnine in just six steps Strychnine, best known as a poison but also used medicinally as a stimulant, can now be synthesised in just six steps, say US scientists. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Blocking cancer's path A concise synthesis of the natural product rasfonin could reignite interest in this molecule as a tool to develop cancer drugs, say scientists from the Netherlands. |
Chemistry World September 23, 2013 Karl Collins |
The portable chemist's consultant The portable chemist's consultant from Phil Baran's laboratory at the Scripps Research Institute in California challenges the concept of a 'textbook' by providing a progressive, multimedia textbook application. This is the future of scientific textbooks. |
Chemistry World November 16, 2012 Yuandi Li |
(+)-Myrrhanol C made Spanish chemists have completed the stereospecific total synthesis of (+)-myrrhanol C. This compound is a natural triterpene isolated from mastic gum, a substance well known for its medicinal properties as well as use in various cuisines. |
Reactive Reports September 2007 David Bradley |
Insecticidal Synthesis The efforts of 40 PhD chemistry students and many others have found a way to construct azadirachtin -- a natural insecticide from the neem tree -- in a total synthesis of 64 individual chemical reaction steps. |
Chemistry World March 22, 2012 Ross McLaren |
Back to the future: old reactions to help the new Researchers from the US have delved into the history of organic chemistry to help chemists better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule. |
Chemistry World May 2, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Synthesis boost for HIV research Hopes for a new type of HIV therapy have been raised by the first chemical synthesis of a scarce plant compound which flushes the virus out of hiding. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 John Hayward |
Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide. |
Chemistry World November 26, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Gone to completion Where is the art of total synthesis headed? |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Karl Collins |
An 'Aye' for details Today, using methods developed by masters of their trade, the modern greats of total synthesis demonstrate that almost any molecule can be prepared given time and effort. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2012 Philip Ball |
The automatic chemist Bartosz Grzybowski of Northwestern University -- who has already established himself as one of our most inventive chemists -- has unveiled a 'chemo-informatic' scheme, Chematica, that can stake a reasonable claim to being paradigm-changing. |
Chemistry World August 13, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Buckyball synthesis under control Researchers in Spain have developed a highly efficient, surface-catalysed route to fullerenes. |
Chemistry World January 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic In the search for new biologically active natural products, sometimes a team isolating a new compound family will be lucky enough to find one active member. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that. |
Chemistry World May 31, 2009 Nina Notman |
The natural approach to winning at drug discovery High throughput drug screening is often described as a casino, with the odds stacked on the side of success as long as a big enough library is used. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2014 Eleanor Merritt |
Designer esters for complex carbohydrates Scientists based in the US have developed a new strategy to simplify the chemical synthesis of complex carbohydrates. |
Chemistry World August 15, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Trifluoromethylation Made Easy US researchers have discovered a simple, low-cost way to add fluorine atoms to heteroaromatic rings. |
Chemistry World October 10, 2010 Andy Extance |
DNA strides into organic synthesis US scientists have used a DNA walker to synthesise an organic molecule in a series of steps, without intervention, for the first time. |
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Anthony King |
Unnatural DNA links click for faster synthesis Human cells can still read strands of DNA correctly if they are stitched together using linkers not found in nature, a new study shows. |
Chemistry World March 27, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Industrial-Scale Dendrimer Production Cracked A new synthetic route that can produce dendrimers in kilogram quantities has been developed by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Enzymes have been giving chemists inferiority complexes since day one, says Derek Lowe. But there's no denying their potential |
Chemistry World December 20, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Off-the-Peg Organic Synthesis Goes Commercial Chemists have created an efficient way to make small molecules by repeatedly using just one coupling reaction to clip together pre-prepared chemical fragments is going commercial. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Slick synthesis to sea sponge structure Chemists in the US have devised a new route to (-)-cyanthiwigin F, a complex biomolecule active against tumors |
Chemistry World February 27, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Bending carbonyl reactivity rules Belgian chemists have uncovered a method to bypass the standard reactivity hierarchy of carbonyl compounds, allowing a ketone or ester to be reduced in the presence of a more reactive aldehyde. |