The Quest To Make Any Molecule: Total Synthesis with Hosea Nelson - Speaking of Chemistry

Speaking of Chemistry caught up with UCLA’s Hosea Nelson to learn about how chemists are trying to copy nature for a brighter future. Don’t forget to subscribe: http://bit.ly/ACSReactions
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Check out the Talented 12 website for everything you need to know about the T12, including a form to nominate next year’s distinguished dozen: http://talented12.cenmag.org/

Don’t forget to read our full story on Hosea: http://talented12.cenmag.org/hosea-nelson/

And yes. People really do call them deadly carrots: https://phylofadb.bch.msu.edu/plants/10488

Additional resources

Chemists Find More Efficient Total Synthesis Route To Ingenol | C&EN
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i51/Chemists-Find-Efficient-Total-Synthesis.html

Multi C–H Functionalizations | C&EN
http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i38/Multi-CH-Functionalizations.html

Natural Products as Sources of New Drugs from 1981 to 2014 | Journal of Natural Products
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b01055


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