retrosynthesis
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noun
The prediction of precursors (intermediates and reactants), given the products of a synthesis reaction.
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- "1983, Francis A. Carey, Richard J. Sundberg, Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions and synthesis, Plenum Press, page 578, The retrosyntheses shown in Scheme 11.11 correspond to the syntheses in Schemes 11.12 and 11.13."
- "The retrosyntheses shown in Scheme 2 lead directly to acetylene-type retrons (14)-(16) (path a) or implicate the use of Dewar o-xylylene (17) (path b) and the smaller retrons (18)-(20); the latter path was the route we elected to pursue (Scheme 3)."
- "For example, the above mentioned retrosynthesis of nacre [132] is as much bio-inspired as is the crystallization in presence of hydrophilic polymers [44], although in the first case, the original biomineral structure is reproduced, whereas in the latter case, no biomineral is reproduced but complex crystal morphologies are obtained."
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retrosynthetic analysis