• the fundamental complexity of chemical synthesis impedes many efforts at drug design?
  
• the development of the Marker degradation chemical synthetic route between 1938 and 1940 established Mexico as a world center for steroid production?
• the East German company Jenapharm synthesized steroids from hog bile because they lacked access to a source of the precursor diosgenin?

Facts on topics related to Chemical synthesis

Chemical reaction

• Byne's disease is not actually a disease, but a chemical reaction that attacks shells in storage or on display?
• Nikolai Menshutkin discovered in 1890 a chemical reaction which is still used to study the effect of solvent on reaction rate?
• taranakite, a mineral formed from the reaction of clays or aluminous rocks with materials derived from bat or bird guano, was first found in New Zealand's Sugar Loaf Islands in 1865?
• the science of human chemistry, the study of reactions between people, was founded with Johann von Goethe’s 1809 novella Elective Affinities?

Chemical engineering

• Carlos Morales Troncoso, the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic, has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering?