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One_Man_Crew

Caffeine synthesis?

I'm an A-level student working on the extraction and synthesis of caffeine for my EPQ. Does anyone know hoe easy it would be to methylate the 1,3 and 7 nitrogens in xanthine, or even make it from guanine?

Posted Dec 2, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

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