Artemisinin – photochemical flow synthesis 5 months on The semi-synthesis of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin from dihydroartemisinic acid, announced in an article by Levesque and Seeberger (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 1706), was followed by extensive coverage in the the scientific and non-scientific press, as well as through social media. The synthetic sequence was […]