🤢🧪The fugu poison, tetrodotoxin, falls very near the top of the international hit parade of poisons. Swallowing even half a milligram transforms this culinary delicacy into an “executioner’s last meal”. You will probably have already guessed that such a poisonous species must also be a brilliant chemist.

https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/1240035/The_Chemists_Fear_of_the_Fugu/

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Popular last week: Convergent Path to Bicyclic Boronates
Work by Peter H. Seeberger, John J. Molloy, and colleagues

The ChemistryViews news avatar gives an introduction

https://www.chemistryviews.org/path-to-bicyclic-boronates/

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