This thesis addresses fundamental scientific questions such as: How are complex natural products synthesized in vivo? Can we replicate these conditions in a laboratory environment? What is the biological function of such secondary metabolites? What are the biological origins of chirality? These issues are explored in an accessible manner using a multidisciplinary approach spanning chemistry, biology and physics to investigate an interesting family of complex natural products isolated from marine molluscs the tridachiahydropyrones.
The work has achieved: Elegant...
This thesis addresses fundamental scientific questions such as: How are complex natural products synthesized in vivo? Can we replicate these...
