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Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic – in a significant discovery made not by breaking new ground, but by revisiting familiar territory. The compound, pre-methylenomycin C ...

LA JOLLA, CA—Chemists at Scripps Research have unveiled a method for turning cheap and widely available chemicals known as dicarboxylic acids into potentially very valuable molecules called lactones.

Triacetic acid lactone (TAL) has the potential to serve as a bioderived platform chemical for commercial products, including sorbic acid. However, TAL currently lacks a global market as its chemical ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 73, No. 6 (Jun., 1976), pp. 2066-2068 (3 pages) L-Gulono-γ -lactone oxidase (L-Gulono-γ -lactone:oxygen ...

Chemists' technique for turning cheap dicarboxylic acids into complex lactones could boost industries from pharmaceuticals to plastics. Chemists at Scripps Research have unveiled a method for turning ...