Antibiotics discovered in the soil of a Cameroon volcano half a century ago have finally been reverse-engineered by Japanese ...

Back in 1974, German researchers discovered peculiar chemical compounds, present as red pigments in soil bacteria from a ...

For the first time, beta- and gamma-naphthocyclinones were successfully synthesized in a laboratory, report scientists. By combining originally developed tactics and innovative strategies, researchers ...

The bridge that connects these two monomers in the final compounds, however, is a rather complex structure called a bicyclo[3.2.1]octadienone core. Getting this core to form as the monomers bond is ...