Drug manufacturers enhance their credibility with relevant products. To improve or create medications, manufacturers benefit from custom synthesis to streamline production. Understand the advantages of this initiative by learning how custom synthesis differs from standard practices.
Understanding Chemical Synthesis
To understand custom synthesis, it’s essential to address chemical synthesis first. Chemical synthesis is a process where chemists perform several multi-step chemical reactions. The goal is to transform a starting material (or reactant) into one or more products.
An example of a synthesis reaction is the combination of sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl) to create sodium chloride (NaCl).
Chemical synthesis is a critical aspect of discovery research via chemistry methods. Scientists can use organic synthesis to discover new biological or physical properties.
What Is Custom Synthesis?
Custom synthesis is the exclusive synthesis of a compound on behalf of a manufacturer, scientists, or pharmaceutical labs. Professionals have access to exclusive chemical synthesis developed for their needs. For example, clients can order chosen compounds synthesized to a set scale with specified methods or purity standards.
Custom synthesis is often critical in producing chemical compounds for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The synthesis process is custom because it’s only for customer applications under confidentiality agreements.
Why Manufacturers Outsource Synthesis
Most manufacturers outsource their chemical synthesis tasks to save time, reduce costs, and lessen the need for resources. Thus, they benefit from external scientific and technological resources. Furthermore, manufacturers without in-house resources must rely on external companies for their projects. Professionals can increase their experiments' scalability and achieve the proper outcomes for projects.
Differentiating Practices
To operate custom synthesis, clients must choose a synthetic pathway. Generally, custom synthesis differs from standard practices with a design of functional macromolecules. Chemists start from scratch and determine the most relevant macromolecules that add value to applications.
This process is long but necessary because it leads to the development of a new molecule that meets client requests.
Standard chemical synthesis has a specific protocol from scientific patents. In these instances, chemists work with the reproduction of known synthetic pathways.
Moravek offers custom synthesis and radiolabeling, including 3H labeling. Work with our highly experienced chemists to maximize production. We look forward to hearing from you!