Northwestern University Chemists Develop New Method for Synthesizing Anti-Cancer Flavonoids

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Flavonoids. You’ve heard of them -- the good-for-your-health compounds found in plants that we enjoy in red wine, dark chocolate, green tea and citrus fruits. Mother Nature is an ace at making them, producing different ones by the thousands, but no chemist has figured out a good way to synthesize a special class of these chemicals in the laboratory. Until now.>>> Discuss This Story

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