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Jawsamycin was discovered in 1989 by Fujisawa, a Japanese pharaceutical company, it has only recently been synthesised. The metabalite is composed of a chain of five carbon triangles (cyclopropyls), giving it its name because of the resemblance to shark’s teeth. The compound, however, has 10 chiral centres, points about which mirror images of the molecule can form for a total of 1024 possible isomers, only one of which is jawsamycin.

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