Health: Metal compounds identified as potential new antibiotics

2026-01-13T11:52:33.000Z 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.