Chemists Synthesize Herbal Alkaloid

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 16:28 in Physics & Chemistry

Synthetic chemists from Vanderbilt University have found an efficient way to create one of the complex alkaloids found in club moss, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, so that it can be made in sufficient quantity to test the compound's therapeutic value.

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