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Chemistry World January 8, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
New antibiotic could treat infection while dodging resistance problems A new antibiotic that can kill life-threatening bacteria -- without them appearing to be able to develop resistance to the drug -- has been discovered by a team of scientists. |
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. |
Chemistry World March 8, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Researchers Claim Antibiotic Holy Grail Researchers in Canada have revealed the structure of a key enzyme involved in the synthesis of bacterial cell walls. The finding opens up the possibility of developing new and improved antibiotics and overcoming the increasing problem of bacterial resistance to existing drugs. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
A Study on Antibiotic Resistance Shows That Bacteria Aren't Just Out To Help Themselves Microbes that are resistant to the drug protect their weaker kin in the colony, HHMI researchers have found. The discovery upends traditional notions of antibiotic resistance and offers a target for new drugs against bacterial infections. |
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 Leanne Marle |
Fighting back against antibiotic resistant bacteria Scientists in Japan have revealed how vancomycin dimers are effective against vancomycin-resistant bacteria. |
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 November 26, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Gone to completion Where is the art of total synthesis headed? |
Chemistry World September 2008 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic The need to discover new antibiotics to treat resistant strains of bacteria is a well- documented and discussed challenge for chemists. |
Chemistry World March 8, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Battleground develops over antibiotic killing mechanism Two recent papers will require many in the field to re-examine and re-open the question of whether or not several different classes of bactericidal antibiotics do or do not work through a common mechanism. |
Chemistry World January 15, 2015 Katrina Kramer |
Chemistry's toughest total synthesis challenge put on hold by lack of funds How many chemists does it take to synthesize a molecule? The answer is 20, at least when it comes to maitotoxin, quite possibly the toughest total synthesis challenge around. |
Chemistry World April 27, 2011 Carol Stanier |
Drug cocktails greater than the sum of their parts Canadian scientists have shown that combining an antibiotic that is past its prime with other drugs can give it a new lease of life. |
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 August 25, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Antibiotic nanoparticles go for gold Chemists in the UK and India have developed a simple, one step synthesis of gold nanoparticles incorporating an antibiotic, without using any other chemicals. |
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 2008 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Vannusal B -- This is a classic case of misassigned identity - the structure published by the researchers who first isolated the compound from its natural source has been recreated via total synthesis, and found wanting. |
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 February 6, 2014 Simon Lewis |
Design and strategy in organic synthesis In this comprehensive treatise by Hanessian and others, a wide range of total syntheses from many different laboratories is used to exemplify different approaches to synthetic design. |
Chemistry World February 22, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Soil switches on antibiotic genes in bacteria So-called 'cryptic' bacterial genes that preside over the production of medically important compounds can be switched on using environmental triggers, German scientists have shown. |
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 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 August 1, 2013 James Urquhart |
Total synthesis outshines biotech route to anticancer drug US scientists have developed the first efficient and scalable route for the total synthesis of ingenol -- a plant-derived diterpenoid used to treat precancerous skin legions. |
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 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 January 30, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Billion dollar package unveiled to fight antibiotic resistance President Obama has made a huge investment in the fight against antibiotic resistant bacteria |
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. |
Chemistry World October 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic It's been a while since I've seen such a battle for the 'first publication' of a molecule as has recently been witnessed for haplophytine. |
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 September 6, 2006 Michael Gross |
Selective Shortcut Chemists have developed a simple catalyst that speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in many complex syntheses. |
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 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 November 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Total synthesis is not immune to the vagaries of fickle fashion. |
Chemistry World May 6, 2014 Andy Extance |
WHO raises alarm on deadly bacteria The World Health Organization has warned antibiotic resistant bacteria could bring a nightmarish future, where seemingly trivial scrapes turn lethal, and currently routine operations become too risky to contemplate. |
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 February 6, 2013 Harriet Brewerton |
Diagnosing bacterial growth Antibiotics are used regularly for treating bacterial infections, but there is currently no quick and simple test to determine the most effective type or dose of antibiotic for a specific patient infection. |
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 October 28, 2013 Edward Anderson |
More dead ends and detours en route to successful total synthesis In this book Miguel A Sierra and his co-authors revisit their 2004 coverage of 'tales of the unexpected' in complex molecule total synthesis. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 |
When Antibiotics Can Help A consumer's guide: What are antibiotics?... How do antibiotics work?... What is antibiotic resistance?... How can I prevent antibiotic resistance?... |
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 29, 2014 |
Organic matter: Indoxamycins A, C and F In 2012, Erick Carreira's group in Zurich reported the total synthesis of indoxamycin B. 1 This 24-step organometallic tour de force resulted in a structural reassignment and set the bar rather high for future work on this family. |
Chemistry World May 2012 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Hopeanol and hopeahainol A |
Chemistry World April 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Perhaps the most frustrating part of being a synthetic chemist is the jealousy with which we must regard nature |
Scientific American January 2007 |
Meet Resistance Head-On With resistance to antibiotics growing at an alarming pace among pathogenic bacteria, Americans must become more aggressive with regard to early intervention in the processes that foster resistance. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2012 Paul Docherty |
Epicoccin G The class of natural products known as 2,5-diketopiperazines is both broad and synthetically well-trodden. An important sub-class of these targets are found with a sprinkling of sulfur atoms, and seem particularly well-suited to pathogen-bashing. |
Chemistry World August 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
C-H oxidation proves its worth US researchers are going against the grain of total synthesis and developing new approaches to complex molecules. |
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 |