Question: How do you make a new molucule?

Megan Seymour answered on 10 Nov 2016:

I start by thinking about exactly what I want to make and often have to read up a bit on how other scientists have made things that are similar.
Once you’ve worked out the reaction pathway that should give you what you want it’s often a case of trying those reactions at different temperatures, in different solvents etc. until you get the conditions just right.