Credit: Photo courtesy of The Scripps Research Institute.
Chemists from The Scripps Research Institute illustrate their powerful new technique to make and modify medicines, published recently in the journal "Science." Professor Phil Baran (center) holds a flask representing amines to cleave strained C–C bonds, which are depicted by a tug-of-war between co-first authors Ryan Gianatassio (left center) and Justin Lopchuk (right center) with co-authors Chung-Mao Pan (left) and Jie Wang.