The Role of Synthetic Chemistry in Drug Discovery

Some may ask why anything needs to be said about synthetic chemistry as a tool for drug discovery after all, it is common to hear that we can make anything. On the other hand, we can only carry out biological evaluation of compounds that have been synthesized. 

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