These chiral alcohols, the products, are the key chiral building blocks for many chiral pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and other fine chemicals.

所得到的手性醇是许多手性医药和其它手性精细化学品的关键手性砌块。

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Chiral alcohols are important building blocks for drug synthesis. The asymmetric reduction of carbonyl compounds with biocatalysts is an important method for producing chiral alcohols.

手性醇是药物合成的重要手性砌块，利用生物催化剂不对称还原羰基化合物是手性醇制备的重要方法。

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Optically pure arylamines are important building blocks in drug synthesis and are commonly used as chiral auxiliaries and chiral resolving agents.

手性芳香胺是药物合成的重要中间体，同时也可用作手性助剂及手性拆分剂。

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And Synthon Chiragenics, a drug-discovery company in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, exploits carbohydrates such as lactose and starch abundant, freely available and notoriously chiral as building-blocks for more complex therapeutic drugs.

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