2.2. Provide Basic Compounds Affording Less Toxic and More Effective
Drug Molecules
The numerous examples of naturally occurring plant products that serve as prototypes for other medicinally potent compounds either having closely related structures prepared exclusively by semisynthetic routes or possessing relatively simpler (less complex) purely synthetic structural analogues have been adequately described in various literatures.
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