Volume 23, No. 3, 1991 OPPI BRIEFS quantities (needed for extensive growth regulatory experiments) is time consuming and published synthetic routes require the use of protecting groups and/or anhydrous conditions4 that, when not rigorously maintained, give poor yields. The isoflavone synthesis described by Baker a does not require such stringent attention and, as described here, will produce 3 even though the methyl group is not activated by a ...
