“…While many groups have demonstrated the feasibility of efficient production of a number of these plant-derived natural products through chemical synthesis (Furlong & Nudelman, 1985;Kumazawa, Kimura, Matsuba, Sato, & Onodera, 2001;Lim, Jung, Ji, Shin, & Keum, 2001;Tanaka, Miyoshi, Chuang, Ando, & Takahashi, 2007;Tanaka, Stohlmeyer, Wandless, & Taylor, 2000;Wan & Chan, 2004), the use of harsh or toxic chemical solvents has limited this methodology to specialized small quantity production. More importantly, chemical synthesis of flavanones, like many other aromatic products, yields a mixture of two stereoisomers, and this is a real critical point since only the (2S) flavanones have been shown to be biologically active (Andersen and Markham, 2006).…”