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Controlled formation of oligomeric catechins has become possible by an orthogonal synthetic strategy. Bromo-capping of the C(8) position of the flavan skeleton enabled the equimolar coupling of electrophilic and nucleophilic catechin derivatives, enabling an efficient synthetic strategy to complex catechin oligomers.
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Ohmori et al. (2004) studied this question.
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