Imagine that you want to perform a demonstration using luciferin. You find out t
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Question
Imagine that you want to perform a demonstration using luciferin. You find out that 50 mg of synthetically produced luciferin (100% purity) can be purchased from a chemical supplier for $200. However, your friend tells you that they can get the same amount of luciferin at the same level of purity for the same price from a supplier that only sells products that were obtained from natural sources (no lab synthesis involved). Your friend tells you that the natural luciferin is safer to use than the synthetic luciferin. For the purpose of this question it is true that we are ignoring the broader impact of the synthetic process or extraction from a natural resource. Explain why you would you agree or disagree with your friend
Explanation / Answer
The compounds extreated from natural sources are pure interms of composition and structure. There may not mixtures of isomers, however in chemically synthesized compounds may be pure compositionally but it may contains isomers such as ortho and para mixtures, stereoisomers, etc.