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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.
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