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Both enantiomers of 2-amino- 1-phenylethanol (2-APE) were resolved by the use of dehydroabietic acid (DAA), a natural chiral acid, by switching resolving solvents. The crystal structures of both diastereomeric salts, (R)-APE/DAA and (S)-APE/DAA, showed that EtOH molecule was only involved in (R)-APE/DAA to complete the necessary H-bond network.

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Conformationally rigid oligomers whose facially amphiphilic conformations can be exploited to generate a novel class of compounds that interacts with phospholipid bilayers and shows promise to be potent antimicrobial agents. 

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In this article, Mathieu Pucheault aims to emphasize how natural products or engineered analogs can be used as chemical tools to apprehend some biological problems from the point of view of a chemical biologist.

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The stereoselective syntheses of 6-azauracil- and 8-aza-7-deazaadenine 2-deoxy-2'-fluoro-D-arabinofuranosides employing nucleobase anion glycosylation with 3,5-di-O-benzoyl-2-deoxy-2-fluoro- -D-arabinofuranosyl bromide 6 as the sugar component are described.