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Research paper : Novel functional gels and their commercial distribution as chemical reagents (M. Yoshida)−189−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.5 No.3 (2012) deciding which reagent should be commercialized. Many organic compounds have been synthesized around the world, but not all became reagents. What is the percentage of the synthesized chemical substances that became reagents (how many percentages of synthesized chemical substances become commercialized as reagents), and what is the market scale of the reagent industry? Please provide these figures as reference information.Answer (Masaru Yoshida)The person in charge at the reagent company mentioned that the important factors in considering reagents are: 1) things that were not possible become possible (novelty) and 2) things that did not exist before are created (prospect). A chemical substance with novelty and prospect can be used widely in actual R&Ds as a reagent, and has the potential of generating a market.For the percentage of chemical substances that become reagents, there are over 65,360,000 chemical substances registered in the database of Chemical Abstracts Service. On the other hand, there are currently 187,000 reagents registered in the reagent database of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, one of the leading reagent companies in the world. Assuming that about three times this amount is used as actual reagents, the percentage can be calculated as follows: 56.1/6538 = 0.86 %. It can certainly be said that only a very limited number of chemical substances become reagents. This information was added to the paper.

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