Why are drugs synthesized in the laboratory?
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Not every drug is synthesized.\n\nPenicillin, for example, is extracted from a particular mold.\n\nOften the best drugs simply don't exist in nature. For example, after penicillin was discovered chemists began making molecules that are very similar to penicillin to try and find more potent forms. This led to a number of life saving medicines like amoxicillin and the cephalosporins.\n\nOther times you simply can't get enough from natural sources. Taxol is a drug used to treat breast cancer. It's found in yew trees, but you would have to wipe out an entire forest to get enough Taxol to treat a single patient. Chemists found a way to make Taxol in the laboratory, and as a result doctors have access to a drug which has helped save the lives of countless breast cancer patients.\n\nJust because a drug is made in a lab it doesn't mean it is any more or less safe than something from a natural source. There are many natural compounds-- some are beneficial, some are deadly. It's no different for compounds synthesized in the lab.
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Probably not on the web.  Do a web search on the final product, read the hits, and see if the journals mentioned are on line or contact the authors (be very polite!!! if you want feedback).  If not you will need the library.  The book series Inorganic Syntheses should have it.
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Your question confuses me.  It is made in a pharmacutical factory.
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Because the synthesis of sugar is a chemical process performed in living organisms.
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to prevent drug errors and death.
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There are literally TONS of apparatuses used in chemistry, it really depends on the type of chemistry you are doing.  It can start, as stated before, with simple glassware for repeating simple chemical reactions.  This simplicity can be brought to the complexity of machinery used in biochemical labs, such as a mass spectrometry machine, which might cost upwards of half a million dollars compared to a couple of bucks for a beaker.
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To take data that exist on paper and enter it into a database.  Over, and over, and over again.\nFor instance, a data entry person working for a Lab might take drug screen analysis results and enter that info into a large database.
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that depends upon wheather you are going to design experiments for bulk product aspirin or formulations like aspirin tablets.\nfor bulk products tests like melting point, assay(percentage purity), solubility testing .... etc,.\nif that is a tablet you have to proceed with release rate, tablet weight, frightness test,etc.....
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If you don't even know the name of the chemical, the answer to this question is waaaaaaayyyyyy over your head.  You couldn't begin to understand the synthesis (which I'm sure I have on my bookshelf somewhere) and you're sure not going to find someone who is going to sell you a drug of the most illegal variety in the open public of this web site.\n\nYou shouldn't be messing with anything of that sort.  It is incredibly dangerous, both psychologically and legally.  Every person I've ever known who has messed with it had an experience bad enough to become convinced to never again go near it.
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Moisture is the vehicle of most chemical reactions.  Too much humidity can cause the drug to begin to react before it's even packaged, at which point it would be useless or potentially harmful to the consumer.
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I am in pharmacy school. If you want to have notes on what chemicals are involved in making medicines in the traditional sense, you can find texts on chinese medicine in a library (there is some thinking involved as the chinese names for herbs and plants are different than the latin ones, and also the chinese use a different system of medicine than the west). If you want to know about chemical synthesis, look into the field of organic chemistry, which is difficult to understand or explain, hence the need for an advanced degree to do much lab work. But those are two places where you can look for your answers. Its rather difficult to obtain potassium permagnate and such because many of these chemicals can also be used for rapid oxidation reactions (ie, explosions). It is easy enough though, to order some essential oils and misscelanious herbs after reading a bit on chinese medicine and using that to treat maladies.
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It isn't because it helps the drug become more soluble, (it does have that effect but that isn't the reason they make it that way)\n\nIt is because the hydrochloride molecule is ABSORBED into the body more easily, and it carries the medication molecule(s) as a piggy-back into the body systems. If there wasn't the HCl molecule, most of the medication would just pass through your body as waste or obvious foreign matter that gets filtered out rather than metabolized.
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Why would you take a drug that is made specifically for veterinary purposes?
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All medications are chemicals. Many of them have more side effects than they have actions on the medical conditions they were prescribed to alleviate. Because of litigation, no drug manufacturer deliberately produces a dangerous medication. It simply happens because the FDA cannot test long enough.
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Prescription drugs have to go through a study...just like that...before any rational doctor will precribe them and before the FDA will even approve them!
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Which hydrazone you want will determine how you synthesize it.
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Scientists do. They may work for a pharmaceutical company, government or on their own. They test it on lab animals until they can prove that they have enough justification to start testing on humans. Then they have to get it approved for testing by the FDA.