Volume 3 Issue 8, August 2019

A new route to the aglycone core of the anthracycline idarubicin relies on the global functionalization of tetracene rather than annulation reactions.

Metabolic disorders cause anomalous productions of chemicals in our bodies that may lead to serious diseases. Functionalized tattoo inks can be effectively use to constantly detect metabolites.

Oleaginous yeasts grown on biomass sustainably produce high yields of triglycerides for use in foods and fuels.

Triboelectric charging is well known to us all and has widespread and important consequences. Nonetheless, its most basic foundations remain poorly understood, and progress is often countered by the emergence of baffling new observations. Recent work shows the difficulty may arise because charging is governed by competing and unstable dynamical processes.

Femtosecond spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems reveals long-lived quantum coherences. This Review focuses on efforts to understand the microscopic origins of these signals and discusses how such coherences may be exploited to probe design principles of photosynthetic light harvesting.

The application of organocatalysis in biology is still in its infancy. In this Review, we evaluate organocatalytic reactions in terms of their applicability in biological settings, including new technologies in chemical biology and biomedicine.