Labelling patterns produced in the 3-benzylchroman-4-one eucomin are consistent with a biosynthetic mechanism involving addition of an extra carbon atom derived from methionine on to a C15 skeleton such as a chalcone.
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Paul M. Dewick (1973) studied this question.
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