Synthesizing an Alkaloid - organic compounds

Synthesizing, or assembling, organic compounds can be a long and arduous process, involving numerous steps that add, change, or remove atoms from a framework. To synthesize an alkaloid, chemists must first know — or figure out — the composition and structure of the natural molecule to be replicated. Then, starting with very small structures that chemists already know how to make, they can begin to assemble these simpler molecules into fragments, called "intermediates," of the desired compound. This may involve lots of trial and error.

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[Revelde20]

whats the name of the process he use to determine the composition? combustion train? can someone clarify that for me ,I'll greatly apreciated.

[cratney73]

"completely amazing"

[1787dude]

i could synthisize the hell out of that molecule!

[melbourneopera]

percy Julian a black guy who discover the alkaloid, awesome

[darkcurrent]

I watched this documentary on Julien on Nova. It's amazing.

He's awesome

[ncsponger]

I really enjoyed this video. Thanks.

[prozrachno]

Quantum engineering, modern alchemy - utterly amazing!

[octopussy18]

wonderful video, I really love it. Thanks for posting

[massspectrician]

Cool. Thanks for the pointer. I'd like to look into this more.

[ChuckMeIntoHell]

This is from Nova on PBS. It's from a documentary about the life of Percy Julian.