Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API), popularly speaking, are the raw materials of medicines, only pharmaceutical raw materials are processed into pharmaceutical preparations , can they become medicines available for clinical use, so drugs we usually eat are the finished drugs through processing. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients based on its sources can be divided into two major categories ,including chemical synthetic drugs and natural chemical drugs. Chemical synthetic drugs can be divided into organic synthetic drugs and inorganic synthetic drugs. Inorganic synthetic drugs are inorganic compounds ( very few is element), such as aluminum hydroxide, magnesium trisilicate which are used for the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers ; organic synthetic drugs are mainly composed of drugs made by basic organic chemical raw materials, through a series of organic chemical reactions (such as aspirin, chloramphenicol, caffeine, etc.). Natural chemical drugs ,based on its sources,can be divided into two categories including biochemical drugs and plant chemical drugs. Antibiotics are generally made by the microbial fermentation, which belongs to the biochemistry category. A variety of semi-synthetic antibiotics occurs in recent years,which are biosynthesis and chemical synthesis combining products.Among active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, the organic synthetic drugs varieties, yields and values have the largest proportion,which are the main pillars of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The quality of active Pharmaceutical Ingredients decides whether the formulation is good or bad , so its quality standards are very strict ,countries in the world have developed national pharmacopoeia standards and strict quality control methods for its widely used active Pharmaceutical ingredients.
Copper Pyrithione
Copper pyrithione is known to have lower solubility in water than zinc pyrithione. Such low solubility would provide an extended period of antimicrobial activity for copper pyrithione relative to zinc
Jun 20,2022 APIPreparation of Hypophosphorous acid
Hypophosphorous acid is the starting product for the synthesis of organophosphorus compounds.
Jun 20,2022 APIBiological function and synthesis of Calcitriol
Calcitriol is a calciotropic hormone secreted by renal proximal tubular cells. It stimulates intestinal calcium absorption and bone mineralization.
Jun 17,2022 APIThe prevention or reduction of discoloration of sodium pyrithione
Sodium pyrithione [also called the sodium salt of 1-hydroxy-2-pyridinethione, sodium pyridine-2-thiol-N-oxide, or 2-pyridinethiol-1-oxide, Na salt] is also employed as a preservative in various cosmet
Jun 17,2022 APIBiological functions and synthesis of Cortisol
Cortisol is a major glucocorticoid hormone in mammals, and cortisol is essential for life.
Jun 17,2022 APIBiological functions and synthesis of Corticosterone
Corticosterone is the biological glucocorticoid in mice, rats, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which do not have 17α-hydroxylase activity in the adrenal cortex.
Jun 16,2022 APISynthesis and use of Estrone
Estrone is a steroid hormone produced in the ovary, testis, and placenta; it has weak estrogenic activity.
Jun 16,2022 APIBiological functions and use of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate ester, DHEAS, are the most abundant steroids circulating in human blood.
Jun 16,2022 APIBiological functions and use of Progesterone
Progesterone (P4) is a steroid hormone and an intermediate of sex steroids produced by all steroidogenic tissues.
Jun 15,2022 APIBiological functions and use of T4
T4 is the quantitatively major thyroid hormone (TH) secreted from the thyroid gland, but it is less potent than 3,30 ,5-triiodothyronine (T3) in many genomic actions of THs.
Jun 15,2022 API