Blocking cancer's path - A concise synthesis of the natural product rasfonin could reignite interest in this molecule as a tool to develop cancer drugs, say scientists from the Netherlands. Adriaan Minnaard and Ben Feringa's group from the University of Groningen developed the synthesis, which has a higher overall yield and takes fewer steps than previous syntheses, they say.
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