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Optical Activity and Pharmaceutical Drugs The Pharmaceuticals business is the epitome of a modern, mature industry that has found a comfortable way to make profits by the billion; it's global, hi-tech and has the ultimate customer, the healthcare budgets of the world's richest countries. Some of today's most promising drugs for the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular and neurological disorders use only one chiral form of a molecule whose isomers are mirror images of one another as a result catalyst developers and marketers report a brisk demand for chiral catalysts, which are able to produce the desired form of a drug or it's chemical building block. The managing director of the pharmaceutical company Mr Peter Prophitt said that "More than three quarters of all new products being developed by the pharmaceutical industry are chiral substances". Agricultural chemicals is another important outlet for chiral chemicals, although interest in chirals from this sector...

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