What is the difference between APIs and Pharmaceutical Intermediates?

 What is API?

API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) refers to the active ingredient contained in a drug. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for use in the manufacture of a drug (drug), when used in the manufacture of a drug, will become the active ingredient of the drug product. Such substances are intended to provide pharmacological activity or other direct effects in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of a disease, or to affect the structure or function of the body.

 

What are Pharmaceutical Intermediates?

Pharmaceutical intermediates are chemical compounds that form the building blocks of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Pharmaceutical intermediates are produced as by-products during the production of APIs. Each reaction in the API production process produces a variety of different pharmaceutical intermediates. It can only be turned into API by further molecular change or refinement. Intermediates can be separated or not separated. Pharmaceutical intermediates are used in the production of bulk drugs and are also used by various pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies for research and development purposes.

 

What is the Difference Between API and Intermediate?

From the perspective of new drug development, an API is a compound that can be safely used in the human body for therapeutic diagnosis after sufficient pharmaceutical research. The pharmaceutical intermediate is a compound in the process of synthesizing the API, which may not have a therapeutic effect or be toxic. Please note that this is not necessarily the case, some intermediates in the synthesis of APIs are also APIs.

Intermediate is a kind of material produced in the process of API, which can only be turned into API by further molecular change or refinement. Intermediates can be separated or not separated.

API is Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. Any mixture of substances or substances intended for use in pharmaceutical manufacture. It is also an active ingredient in pharmaceuticals when used in pharmaceuticals. Such substances have pharmacological or other direct effects in the diagnosis, treatment, remission, treatment or prevention of diseases, or can affect the function and structure of the body.

From the definition, it can be seen that the intermediate is the key product of the preceding process of making API, which is different from the structure of API. In addition, pharmacopoeia is available for the detection of API, but there is no intermediate.

 

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