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by foobarian 2262 days ago
Something that is not obvious from article or posts in this thread, but seems to be taken for granted: how exactly do you know how much of some target molecule you created? The article for example mentions 1g of remdesivir, but that seems like a complicated chemical so how do they tell it apart from something very similar but different? Some kind of GCM or electron microscope?
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NMR and mass spectrometry are two powerful analytical tools, both of which they used