Bacteria employ various signaling systems to communicate and sense their environment. The autoinducer type II (AI-2) signaling system is, however, unique in its widespread presence across the bacterial kingdom, allowing ...

In this study we investigated whether furanones could prevent biofilms from being formed. Our first aim was to find a new synthesis pathway for (Z)-5-bromomethylene-2(5H)-furanone, a furanone also produced in nature by the ...