SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY. “This is the moment in 1844 referred to in the introduction, with Laurent painting fantastical scenes and dreaming of molecules coming apart and joining together in new formations. He took the technique he had used with Hofmann to produce aniline and used it on the essence of bitter almonds, soon producing two brand-new artificial alkaloids, amarine and lophine.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022