What Advantages Are There to Synthesizing a Naturally Occurring Medicine

question 51

Multiple Choice

What advantages are there to synthesizing a naturally occurring medicine, such as Taxol, in the laboratory rather than isolating it from nature?

• A)Synthesizing a natural product can be advantageous when the source of the natural product is rare and thus not readily available.
• B)In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, the chemist is able to create closely related compounds that may have even greater medicinal properties.
• C)Both A and B are true.
• D)In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, a chemist can increase the concentration of the synthetic beyond that of natural product to insure maximum potency for good heath.

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