Skip To Content

Search for: index_list.html

As part of an ongoing search for new bioactive natural products from the genus Pentas, Abdissa et al isolated three new naphthalenes  from the roots of P. bussei including 2,2′-binaphthralenyl-1,1′-dione, molecular formula C32H28O6.

Aquatolide is a humulane-derived sesquiterpenoid lactone isolated from Asteriscus aquaticus. The structure of aquatolide (molecular formula C15H18O3) contained an extremely rare ladderane substructure.

An unexpected synthetic product coming from Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin, from the lab of Dr. Marc Nazaré. The dataset was provided to ACD/Labs as part of our Structure Elucidation Suite Challenge. The product was isolated after a reaction and it was found by HR-MS to have a molecular formula of C14H13N3O.

El-Elimat et al reported five new and one known meroterpenoids, including the discovery of a novel ioxa[4.3.3]propellane metabolite neosetophomone A that incorporates a 3-methyl-2,3-dihydrofuran bridge into a 5,6 tricyclic 2-hydroxycyclopent-2-en-1-one/tetrahydropyran ring system, molecular formula C24H32O5.

An effective elucidator is capable of connecting information from multiple sources with the goal of eliminating the inconsistent candidates. In this puzzle, the candidates are molecular formulae (MFs). The previous blog listed 4 potential MFs differing in mass difference and RDBE. The mass difference is not a good filter as the mass differences for the...

A Markush structure represents a group of related chemical compounds, commonly used in patents, structural elucidation, metabolite identification, and mixture representation. It allows variations in substituents, positions, frequencies, and homologies, streamlining patent claims and ensuring broad protection. Learn how ChemSketch makes it easy to draw and enumerate Markush structures.

Major update to Katalyst D2D will provide support for process scale-up and material characterization in pharmaceutical development Toronto, CANADA (October 23, 2025)—ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of digitalized R&D, today announced a new release of Katalyst D2D®, the industry-leading software for workflow digitalization and data management in chemical and...

Le Goff et al reported the structural characterization of two novel alkylhydrazides produced by the bacterial strain Streptomyces sp. LMA-545. The structures were elucidated using 1D and 2D 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic analysis and high-resolution mass spectrometry. 1H–15N NMR experiments were required for full structural elucidation. Here we investigate the structure elucidation of Geralcin A ( molecular formula C15H24N2O5), one of the three isolated novel compounds.

Symmetric Helical Synthesis Product This month’s problem is again a bit different from the others. It comes from the Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK. John Lowe had been trying to challenge Structure Elucidator and asked his colleagues at the Department for interesting problems. David Carbery gave him two synthetic samples, A and B,...

InChIKey is a 27-character compacted (hashed) version of InChI which is intended for Internet and database searching/indexing and is based on an SHA-256 hash of the InChI character string. The first block of InChIKey encodes molecular skeleton while the second block represents various kinds of isomerism (stereo, tautomeric, etc.). InChIKey is designed to be a...