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Beyond grind and find

Nature Chemistry volume 1, pages 261–263 (2009)Cite this article

Chemists are able to synthesize, and deduce the structure of, ever more complex molecules produced by nature, but what does the future hold for this venerable field, and what are the new challenges?

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Figure 1: Sources of bioactive natural products past, present and future.

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  1. Scott J. Miller is in the Department of Chemistry, Yale University, PO Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.,

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  2. Jon Clardy is in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,

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