In drug discovery, chemical biology, and natural-product-related synthesis, “indoles” are often treated as a general heteroaromatic scaffold to purchase and use.
Remember the faint scent of jasmine on your first love, which you once thought was the smell of love, but in fact, this nice scent comes from a chemical called indole. However, it also has a familiar name - fecal odorant. As it turns out, indole and its derivatives almost always have this ...