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roundearthervaxxer t1_ix5colm wrote

Reply to comment by Saedius in Could you turn any organic molecule into any other, given unlimited steps and reagents? by ZoofusCos

Fascinating. Can you elaborate? Why so expensive?

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Joe_Q t1_ix5dfc7 wrote

Some of the transformations that would be required in u/Saedius' protocol would be so low-yielding, and / or the desired product such a small component of a complicated mixture, that you'd need to spend use a lot of time and resources to generate them in reasonable quantities and purify them.

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