Mimicking biosynthetic pathways can provide access to medicinally important natural products, but generating the reactive species used by nature can often be difficult. Now, a photoredox-based strategy has been developed to access a reactive radical intermediate postulated to be involved in complex lignan biosynthesis.

中文翻译：

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轻工合成木脂素

模仿生物合成途径可以提供具有重要药用价值的天然产物，但产生自然界使用的活性物质通常很困难。现在，已经开发了一种基于光氧化还原的策略来获取假定参与复杂木脂素生物合成的活性自由基中间体。