Pharmaceutical industry opportunities, chemists

The production of single enantiomers of drug intermediates is increasingly important in the pharmaceutical industry. Biocatalysis provides organic chemists an alternate opportunity to prepare pharmaceutically important chiral compounds. The advantages of biocatalysis over chemical catalysis are that enzyme-catalyzed reactions are stereoselective and regioselective, and can be carried out at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure providing an environmentally friendly system. The selective examples presented in this... 

A career in discovery research can bring a variety of personal satisfactions and corporate successes, which complement the salary, benefits, and publication opportunities that the work entails. Some of these achievements come to chemists employed in or out of the pharmaceutical industry, while others are peculiar to medicinal chemistry. Even veteran chemists take pleasure in applying a known reaction or synthetic method to the preparation of new com-poimds. To conceive a novel synthesis or invent a new reaction is gratifying... 

In order that chemists might have an opportunity to study the new substance, Courtois generously presented some of it to the pharmaceutical firm of Vallee and Baget (13). He was unable to prepare it fast enough to supply the demand, however and could sell only small amounts of it, at a price of 600 francs per kilogram. In 1824 M. Tissier the elder perfected an industrial process which in a few months brought the price of iodine down to 200 francs per kilogram. 

But needed specifically for what What exactly did chemists do to support the war effort This issue receives most comprehensive and detailed treatment in the three papers devoted to the French chemical war effort Chauveau s on the governmental coordination bureau, the Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Office Bret s on the military munitions laboratories and Langlinay s on chemical industry. Also interesting is the issue of motivation which scientists were self-recruited , and was their motive pure patriotism, or the opportunity for advancing the status of scientists, as Pancaldi argues ... 

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