Industrial Use
An example of the Grignard reaction is a key step in the industrial production of Tamoxifen (currently used for the treatment of estrogen receptor positive breast cancer in women):
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“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
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