A research team has disclosed the complete biosynthetic pathway for the formation of strychnine in the plant species Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nut). The researchers identified all genes involved in ...

A German group's new synthesis for strychnine is now the shortest route to a benchmark target for synthetic organic chemists. Christine Beemelmanns and Hans-Ulrich Reissig in the chemistry department ...

Chemistry professor David W. C. MacMillan and coworkers at Princeton University devised the approach, which could ease the large-scale production of natural products and natural-product-like compounds ...

Many of us know strychnine from crime reports, novels or films. Agatha Christie had several of her victims die of strychnine poisoning. She described what is probably the best-known fictional murder ...