Reminds me of chemistry class at school when we synthesised salicin and also extracted it from willow bark then had to prove they were the same (or was it not q

Reminds me of chemistry class at school when we synthesised salicin and also extracted it from willow bark then had to prove they were the same (or was it not quite the same because of "isomers"/<reason> I can't remrmber). Anyway I took away the (wrong) impression that "if we can make it then nature probably already has".