Nature assembles complex natural products using bifunctional building blocks and a mere handful of reaction types. Mimicry of this method seeks to revolutionize natural product and small-molecule synthesis.
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Hamann, L. Natural products on demand. Nature Chem 6, 460–461 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1964
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