Tagged: biosynthesis PicturesList 01 The plant · 13 May 2026 The Molecule It Took Chemists Forty-Four Years to Copy Aspalathin was identified in 1965. Chemists did not manage to build it from scratch in a lab until 2010, and the reason is written into the molecule's own shape. Here is what makes rooibos's signature compound so awkward to fake, and why anyone bothered trying. Nothing filed under this topic yet.