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Post date: Sep 21, 2016 6:20:48 PM
When building molecules with chiral centers, chemists often take advantage of naturally-occurring molecules (natural products) that already have some of those chiral centers preinstalled AND are also highly abundant. This "chiral pool" represents an economical starting point for synthesis.
Source: Handout prepared by Prof. Jeremy May, University of Houston (Chem 3652 Organic Reactions and Synthesis class) http://may.chem.uh.edu/teach-files/Chiral%20Pool.pdf
His site has a lot of useful handouts as well: http://may.chem.uh.edu/teaching.html
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