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Ingredients
Improving selectivities
Many structural features present in APIs can be challenging to synthesise at commercial scale because the route may involve very high or low temperatures, or hazardous reagents. Often a metal catalyst can provide the answer by enabling a reaction to take place that would not otherwise be possible. They can be especially useful in installing stereochemistry into an otherwise achiral or racemic molecule.