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Natural products might just be our best weapon against antibiotic resistance

Plants and their rich biodiversity have been used by humans to treat diseases since the dawn of time. Synthetic chemists still struggle to reproduce the complexity of certain chemical reactions that nature has developed throughout millions of years of evolution, which makes the world of... click to read more

Olivier Kirchhoffer | PhD student at University of Geneva

Jahn Nitschke | PhD student at University of Geneva

Jean-Luc Wolfender | Professor at University of Geneva

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Anti-mycobacterial

Large colletion of plants

Structural similarity search

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Apr 3, 2024

Same or different? The tale of a tangled molecule

A seemingly simple question — Are two objects the same or different? — frequently has a complicated answer. For chemists the objects are molecules, and over the years we have refined our ability to make same/different distinctions as we learn more about molecular structures. Molecules... click to read more

Eric J. N. Helfrich | Professor at Institute of Molecular Bio Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Jon Clardy | Professor at Institute of Molecular Bio Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

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Molecular Shape

Peptide

Stereochemistry

Total Synthesis

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Feb 19, 2021