Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry,.

This is a work of fiction. If you find any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, deadly or lively, or actual molecules, carbons or heteroatoms, it is purely coincidental. At this time my father became critically ill, I had to go .

Driven by the great medicinal potential of the steroidal sex hormones and anti-inflammatory agents, the period of the 1930s through the 1950s has been called the golden age of steroid chemistry. In recent years, steroid research has witnessed a renaissance, as a new generation of scientists has begun to recognize the pharmacologically privileged nature of the steroidal molecular framework. This blog highlights achievements pertaining to steroid technologies published from 2010 to the present.

Interesting Organic Chemistry and Natural Products. Publication of the week, number 90, 14th August 2015. I see that the Baran group are synthesising simple molecules again. This week they reported their route to the potent anti-tumour compounds verruculogen and fumitremorgin A; two alkaloids with lots of rings and an endoperoxide in an eight membered ring. Not to mention a substituent at the 6 position of the indole ring.