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Synergy of synthesis, computation and NMR reveals correct baulamycin structures
Experimental and computed nuclear magnetic resonance data and an iterative synthetic strategy have revealed the correct structures of the baulamycins, potentially important antimicrobial compounds, allowing them to be chemically synthesized.
- Jingjing Wu
- , Paula Lorenzo
- & Varinder K. Aggarwal
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Dodecagonal tiling in mesoporous silica
The well-established self-assembly of surfactant micelles is used to produce a new mesoporous silica structure, a dodecagonal quasicrystal, which offers larger length scales than intermetallic quasicrystals and improved structural quality compared with soft-matter mesoscale quasicrystals.
- Changhong Xiao
- , Nobuhisa Fujita
- & Osamu Terasaki
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Symmetrizing the unsymmetrical
You might think that the partial symmetry of the molecule complanadine A makes it easy to prepare, but the reverse is true. Two syntheses of this compound offer insight into how to make partly symmetrical molecules.
- Scott A. Snyder
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Books & Arts |
Chemistry's visual origins
Vivid imagination was key to unlocking the secrets of molecular structure in the nineteenth century, finds Andrew Robinson.
- Andrew Robinson
Reinvestigation of a robotically revealed reaction