The American Chemical Society (I am a member) maintains the Chemical Abstract Service which logs in each new chemical and compound as they are discovered. The milestone fifty millionth compound was logged in September 7. This actually says a lot and not so much. It says that we continue as a discipline to catalogue the complexity of what we see but also the huge number of compounds that we have yet to figure out.
That cannot take anything away from G. Attardo, S. Tripathy, and M. Gagnon who reported in their patent Preparation of arylmethylidene heterocycles as novel analgesics. the synthesis of (5Z)-5-[(5-Fluoro-2-hydroxyphenyl)methylene]-2-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-4(5H)-thiazolone.
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I wonder if they will have t-shirts made up. On the other hand the organic chemistry students should recognize this compound as closely related to the much loved oxathiazolones.
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