article_snippet: Professor John Sutherland, a chemist at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who led the new study said: 'Although the new study necessarily has to be painted with broad brushstrokes, the picture that emerges is of an overall reaction network developing over time in separate streams and pools, according to a dynamic flow chemistry scheme. '
article_snippet: The various products would be synthesized by subtle variations in the flow-chemistry history of the streams and the order in which they merged or ran into pools. '
article_snippet: Although the overall scheme would not involve all the steps of the reaction network taking place simultaneously in ‘one pot’, The various products would end up mixed together in pools.'
article_snippet: Over time the different products would have been mixed together as streams met and mingled into pools.