New halogenation enzyme found: Discovery to impact pharmaceutical and agricultural industries
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 05:01
in Physics & Chemistry
One of the Holy Grails in chemical science has been to find the late-stage, site-specific incorporation of a halogen atom into a complex natural product by replacing an sp³ C-H bond -- one of the most inert chemical bonds known in an organic compound -- with a C-X bond, X=halogen.