Natural product synthesis: clearing the way to cortistatins.
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چکیده
The determination of molecular structure is an important step in the potential applications of naturally occurring organic compounds with interesting biological activity. For a significant fraction of newly isolated natural products, however, standard analytical techniques such as Nmr and mass spectrometry cannot provide a definitive structure. Now, Leo gross and co-workers have used a scanning probe microscopy technique to obtain an atomicresolution image (shown on the cover) of a single molecule of cephalandole a, thereby enabling an unambiguous assignment of its structure. image courtesy of Leo gross, iBm research-Zurich. Article p821; News & Views p799
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Nature chemistry
دوره 2 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010