About 250 years ago it was isolated from willow bark, and was first
synthesized in a chemistry lab 120 years ago.
Not exact matches
When undergraduate James Carnahan
synthesized a new molecule
in his
chemistry lab at Columbia University 42 years ago, he hurried to his adviser, Thomas Katz, to share the good news.
Postdoc Jinsen Chen, left, and
chemistry professor Shiyue Fang
in the
lab where Fang's group discovered a new way to
synthesize DNA.
«Although I can now say it is easy, at the beginning when I joined this project, I struggled a lot to
synthesize and isolate the sugar compounds, because I was not exactly an expert
in sugar
chemistry, and it was a new research field for me,» says Jiao Jiao, a postdoctoral researcher
in Professor Kenichiro Itami's
lab at ITbM, Nagoya University.
She wanted to connect
chemistry to biology
in some concrete way, so she'd planned to join a biochemistry
lab focused
synthesizing retinal (vitamin A) as a way to understand rhodopsin proteins.