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Total synthesis of a potential antibiotic

A new addition to promising family of antibacterial compounds.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the clinically relevant pathogens that the new compound may help to fight.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the clinically important pathogens that the new compound may help to fight. Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/SPL

A potential antibiotic has been identified and synthesized from scratch using only simple reagents.

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Nature 549, 9 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-03050-y

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