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When asked a question, they ply through their database and try to synthesize from it the most probable answer.

“These chemical companies ship fentanyl precursors and adulterants around the world, including to the United States and Mexico, where drug cartels and traffickers use the precursors to synthesize and manufacture fentanyl into powder and pills, mix the fentanyl with various adulterants, and distribute it throughout the United States,” federal prosecutors wrote in the indictment.

“It helped me synthesize what I already knew intuitively.’

"In the pharmaceutical industry, it is common and even mandated to synthesize and test such mirror-image drug entities, as they may have different medicinal properties and toxicities," Armstrong said.

In their latest study, which was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition on 27 May 2024, they present a convenient methodology to access the pyridine side of quinolines and synthesize diverse 2D/3D frameworks.