Pharmaceutical Intermediates
1. What is pharmaceutical intermediates?
Pharmaceutical intermediates are some chemical raw materials or chemical products used in the process of drug synthesis.
Most intermediates belong to semi-finished products, which are the initial products that must be processed by a certain process, and also belong to industrial materials, not final products. Pharmaceutical intermediates are fine chemical products, and the production of pharmaceutical intermediates has become a major industry in the international chemical industry.
2. The difference between pharmaceutical intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)
Both pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs belong to the category of fine chemicals. Intermediates are produced in the process steps of APIs and must undergo further molecular changes or refining to become a material of APIs.
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs): Active pharmaceutical ingredient (APIs) is intended to be used in the manufacture of any one substance or mixture of substances. APIs becomes an active ingredient of a drug when used in pharmaceutical manufacture. These substances have pharmacological activity or other direct effects in the diagnosis, treatment, symptom relief, treatment or prevention of diseases, or can affect the function and structure of the body.
APIs is an active product that has completed the synthetic route, and the pharmaceutical intermediates is a product somewhere in the synthetic route. APIs can be prepared directly, while intermediates can be only used to synthesize next-step products. APIs can only be produced through pharmaceutical intermediates.
Pharmaceutical intermediates are the key products of the previous process of manufacturing APIs.
Post time: Aug-30-2023
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