COPYING NATURE'S ASSEMBLY LINE.

The article discusses research related to assembly-line reaction by chemists including Varinder K. Aggarwal at the University of Bristol, England, published in the periodical "Nature" in 2014. Topics discussed include synthesis of polyketide natural products via an assembly-line process, development of carbon chains by repeated homologation of a carbon-boron bond using of boronic ester and an organolithium compound and stereochemistry of the methyl groups.