A research team has uncovered and rebuilt a previously elusive plant pathway that produces oxindole alkaloids—a rare and ...

Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely used to treat a range of infections, including pneumonia and skin ...

Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely ...

The nearly 30-year tale of secalosides A and B began in 1997, when natural product chemists identified them as components of rye pollen extract. Although the compounds were inactive in lab tests with ...

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Structurally complex polyketide natural products, isolated from a variety of marine and terrestrial sources, continue to provide a valuable source of rewarding targets for the synthetic chemist to ...