Nature has evolved highly sophisticated machinery for organic synthesis. An archetypal example is its machinery for polyketide synthesis where a simple thioester is passed from one module to another, ...

Organic chemists have long admired nature for its ability to perform chemistry in an assembly-line style, wherein the same reaction or sets of reactions are carried out repeatedly to create a target ...

The assembly line and automobile manufacturing will forever be associated with Henry Ford to the point that many people believe he invented the process. Revolutionized, yes. Invented, no. “Henry Ford ...