Pharmaceutical Intermediate Exporter
Pharmaceutical intermediates are chemical compounds widely used in manufacturing various types of drug in bulk quantity also used for research and development by pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies.
What is the difference between APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates?
The main difference between the two is that APIs are active products that have completed the synthetic route, while intermediates are products at a certain position of the synthetic route.
The difference between APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates-detailed description
Active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates belong to the category of fine chemicals. Intermediates are substances produced during the production of APIs and require further molecular changes to become APIs. The intermediate can be separated or not separated.
The active pharmaceutical ingredient is used to make medicine, and it can be any substance or mixture of substances. When the ingredient is used in medicine, it becomes an active ingredient, which plays a pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, treatment, alleviation of symptoms or prevention of diseases. The API can be directly formulated, while the intermediate can only be used to synthesize the next product. Only through intermediates can API be produced.
Overview of the difference between APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates
It can be seen from the definition that intermediate pharmaceutical products are the key products of the previous process of APIs, and they are also different in structure from APIs. In addition, the Pharmacopoeia has testing methods for APIs, but no testing methods for intermediates. In the modern pharmaceutical industry, both active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates are very important.
Customized intermediate synthesis
We already know the difference between APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates, and now it’s time to understand how APIs are produced. This production process usually includes customized synthesis services. We will introduce the synthesis of intermediates in detail to reveal this production process.
According to the closeness of cooperation with customers, the custom synthesis of intermediate pharmaceutical product is divided into 3 levels:
(1) Participate in the development phase of the customer’s new project, which requires the hired company to be highly innovative;
(2) Establish a process route for mass production. This requires the company to have the ability to scale up products, and to continuously improve the process of customized products in the later stage to meet the needs of large-scale production. Continuously reduce production costs and improve product competitiveness;
(3) Improve the process of customers’ products in the mass production stage to meet the quality standards of foreign companies.
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