But, never fear, we’re here to explain it all to you in layman’s terms. A fundamental concept in organic chemistry is retrosynthesis.
Imagine, you have a huge jigsaw puzzle in front of you. Retrosynthesis, far from connecting all the puzzle pieces to create a big picture, does the opposite.
Rather than committing a large list of reactions to memory, chemists can work backwards to understand the best, most efficient way to make a molecule using retrosynthesis. \
By retracing the logical steps of retrosynthesis, chemists can deconstruct a target molecule to determine the starting materials and reactions necessary to build it.
In the lab or when creating new drugs, retrosynthesis enables chemists to cut costs and save time while providing a road map to the fastest routes to chemicals they would like to make.
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