[6+4] for CP structures (Naturalproductman’s Blog)

James Gleason and co-workers from McGill University in Canada have recently reported in Tetrahedron on a novel approach for the synthesis of CP molecules. They used a cycloheptatrienone for a [6+4] reaction to form the bridged bicyclic component of the molecule.Tetrahedron…

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Coprinastatin 1 (Naturalproductman’s Blog)

George Pettit and co-workers at Arizona State University have recently published in the Journal of Natural Products on the isolation of coprinastatin 1 that was found from a cap fungus, Coprinus cinereus, which was growing on a small plant found in Shasta-Trinity…

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 - Albert Einstein

Chemistry World’s weekly round-up of money and molecules (Chemistry World blog)

This week has seen the International Antimony Association (I2A) take up arms against a European Union proposal that antimony trioxide should be banned from all electrical and electronic equipment. The proposals, made by Jill Evans, a UK member of the European…

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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
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