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[-] unused_nerons@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

You speak like someone whose never had to buy insulin before.

[-] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Insulin is worse though because it’s not like it’s a drug that had to be developed and has a billion dollars or more to develop. The case with insulin is blatant price gouging.

This pill, this doesn’t mean it should be as cheap as insulin as the two drugs aren’t equals. It can be priced fairly and still be expensive, we don’t know the economics behind it. Being cheap =/= fair pricing all the time. Like buying a better product that took more to make.

This could still be outrageously priced obviously, but comparing it to insulin is apples to oranges.

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

it doesn't look very advanced or hard to make honestly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOH1996

What is the indicator in the article that the compound is trivial to produce?

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

its structure, it's like 4 steps from widely available building blocks, all routine things (amide couplings, one palladium coupling or SNAr)

source: me, i'm an organic chemist

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

depending on how you count, even less than 4 steps all starting materials are commercially available and probably pretty cheap

i'm not gonna talk down a molecule that's easy to make, but there may be room for modifications, should it be discovered that these are beneficial. this may or may not make synthesis a little bit harder or more expensive but at any rate not impossible

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