An iridium metal complex has been identified as a promising, if unconventional, new antibiotic drug, a new study finds.
The compound is one of more than 600 produced in a study published in December in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers used a robot to synthesize the compounds, combining metal and organic molecule building blocks to generate a huge chemical library in just a week.
This streamlined approach, which also produced five other potential antibiotics, could dramatically accelerate both drug discovery and parallel areas of chemical research, study lead author Angelo Frei, an inorganic chemist at the University of York in the U.K., told Live Science.
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