How tropolones synthesized in fungi: 70-year-old chemical mystery solved
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
Chemists and biologists from the University of Bristol have finally cracked one of the longest standing chemical mysteries. In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team demonstrate exactly how an unusual class of compounds known as tropolones are synthesized in fungi.