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Robot Bender's avatar

Thank you for the time and effort you put into these posts, Dr. Love. I appreciate your work.

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Brain of J-Hawk (he/him)'s avatar

Another thing to mention is how incredibly inefficient it can be to isolate natural chemicals. One of the main drivers in my field of chemistry is to devise a synthetic route to a natural product, because the extraction from nature requires tedious (copious amounts of solvents) and sometimes expensive purification techniques (chromatography). Synthetic chemistry has come a long way in optimizing the efficiency of isolation and also decrease the amount of waste products generated from those processes.

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