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Natural products chemistry is a very old branch of synthetic organic chemistry. See wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_product http://en.wi
by localhost 12y ago
Natural products chemistry is a very old branch of synthetic organic chemistry. See wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_product http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_product
If you do a quick search for Natural Products in Google Scholar, and you'll see that this is a widely accepted term in organic chemistry.
Now, what you're saying is something that generally irritates me to no end - differentiating between "synthetic" and "natural". An alkene is an alkene, regardless of whether it was synthesized by a natural process or in a reactor.
- pron 12y agoOh. I stand corrected.
- evincarofautumn 12y agoIn fact I’d half-expect that synthetic products be generally safer, since you know exactly what you’re making and the extent to which it may be adulterated. If I want to eat everything that comes from the vanilla bean, I can buy extract. But if I want just vanillin, I can buy exactly that.
- SAI_Peregrinus 12y agoNatural products can be produced via a wholly synthetic method, they're just compounds which are also produced by non-human bits of nature.