{"id":234825,"date":"2026-04-08T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-greener-route-to-citrus-derived-therapeutics-what-a-new-bromination-method-changes"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:17:19","slug":"a-greener-route-to-citrus-derived-therapeutics-what-a-new-bromination-method-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-greener-route-to-citrus-derived-therapeutics-what-a-new-bromination-method-changes","title":{"rendered":"A greener route to citrus-derived therapeutics: What a new bromination method changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-greener-route-to-citrus-derived-therapeutics-what-a-new-bromination-method-changes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate students at Penn State Brandywine developed an environmentally friendly and easy method to synthesize compounds from plant-derived molecules for potential use in therapeutics. Their work, conducted under the supervision of Penn State Brandywine Assistant Professor of Chemistry Anna Sigmon, was <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsomega.5c07396\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in a special issue of the journal <i>ACS Omega<\/i> titled \u201cUndergraduate Research as the Stimulus for Scientific Progress in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Maria Englert, who graduated from Penn State in 2025, became involved with Sigmon\u2019s research on the recommendation of another mentor and said she learned far more than she expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more we worked through the reactions and discussed methodologies with each other, the more chemistry felt like an art form\u2014something that requires creativity, intuition and a tenacious approach to problem-solving,\u201d she said. \u201cThis experience taught me that progress in research is shaped by collaboration, careful observation and a willingness to rethink your approach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate students at Penn State Brandywine developed an environmentally friendly and easy method to synthesize compounds from plant-derived molecules for potential use in therapeutics. Their work, conducted under the supervision of Penn State Brandywine Assistant Professor of Chemistry Anna Sigmon, was published in a special issue of the journal ACS Omega titled \u201cUndergraduate Research as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}