retrosynthetic
Chemistry
adjective
Designating a synthetic method in which a desired molecule is hypothetically broken into simpler fragments over a number of steps, allowing a procedure for synthesizing the molecule to be devised; relating to or involving this method.
Origin
1970s.
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