Sadie Otte, lab lecturer in chemistry in the W.M. Keck Science Department, Chemistry World about the importance of a recent study of perseanol, a potential insecticide that鈥檚 natural and eco-friendly. Otte, who did not participate in the study but whose research is in the field of natural product synthesis, says that the researchers鈥� method of breaking molecules 鈥渁voids preconceived biases of what is possible鈥� in synthesized reactions.