Enantioselective synthesis, also called chiral synthesis, asymmetric synthesis or stereoselective synthesis, is organic synthesis that selectively produces one or more new and desired elements of chirality. This methodology is important in the field of pharmaceuticals because the different enantiomers or diastereomers of a molecule often have different biological activity.
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