Manufacturing biomimetic synthesis

The use of tethers and templates in the chemistry described above can furnish valuable information about the conformations of flexible molecules, and in appropriate cases can lead to selective functionalization reactions, including those at unactivated positions. Thus these reactions are biomimetic, imposing geometric control over the normal substrate reactivity control. It remains for the future to develop such reactions, and catalysts, to the point at which they take their place in the tools of synthesis for research and manufacturing. However, such progress seems likely, judging from the progress that has been made to date. 

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