Reactor sitting in water bath. (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Reactor sitting in water bath.

Caption

One of the main challenges came from the complex structure of cefazolin itself. Until now, no one had seemingly been able to develop a reaction method capable of synthesizing a highly purified drug by simply flowing raw materials through a reactor.

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2023 H. Ishitani

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