Simple organic compounds are used in many different production units and institutions, such as the pharmaceutical industry, as the building blocks to more complex and biologically active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Organic compounds can be broadly divided into two classes, aliphatic and aromatic compounds.
Aliphatic compounds have carbon atoms in chains and not in closed rings, and were originally used to describe fats and fatty acids, whereas aromatic compounds contain a benzene skeleton.
Avocado Organics is able to produce thousands of separate organics, including a variety of both aliphatic and aromatic organic compounds. This includes a vast range of derivatised heterocyclic ring systems, (a ring system containing at least one heteroatom, eg oxygen, nitrogen or sulphur). These heterocycles can be either aromatic in the cases of furan, pyridine or thiophene ornon-aromatic for example in the nitrogen containing ring system, pyrrolidine. Among the most important and most interesting heterocycles are those examples that possess aromatic properties, such as nicotine or vitamin B1 (thiamine). Many of the common heterocycles contain either 4-, 5-, or 6-membered ring systems.
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