Her methods were improvised and lacking, by her own admission. There are several world class labs working on this today. There's basically zero chance a junior

Her methods were improvised and lacking, by her own admission. There are several world class labs working on this today. There's basically zero chance a junior researcher doing amateur chemistry in the kitchen is going to outperform the best groups in the world at figuring out how to synthesize this thing with decent yield, and then characterizing it.