Chemists have synthesized the antimalarial drug quinine after 150 years of trying.
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Stork,G. et al. The first stereoselective total synthesis of quinine. Journal of the American Chemical Society 123,3239- 3242 2001.
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Ball, P. Sweet success for bitter tonic. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010419-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news010419-1