Paradigms found: Inositol phosphates are biomolecules found ubiquitously in eukaryotes, in which they play a number of vital biological roles. Their enantioselective synthesis has recently received a boost from two complementary phosphorylation methods that could change the way they are synthesised, and hopefully provide invaluable chemical biology tools to further our understanding of this large family.
Keywords: chiral resolution; chiral synthesis; inositol phosphate; organocatalysis; phosphorylation.
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