A team of chemists at the University of Konstanz in Germany has succeeded in synthesizing canataxpropellane—one of the most complex natural products ever produced. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the long and arduous process they used and relate that they almost gave up several times along the way.
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Source: Phys.org