And by that, I mean anything that can be described in one of these process, you can capture in that set of primitives.

对于那个，我的意思是任何东西,都可以用这个流程中的一部分来表达出来，你可以从那堆基本类型中间挑选。

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But in terms of drugs that don't look like maybe this compound was used in the synthesis, many of them might have used thionyl chloride, because it generates such a nice reactive intermediate that you can go on and make a bunch of different compounds from that intermediate.

但是对于药物来说,它们可能跟合成过程中用到的这种化合物并不相像，很多药物的制造过程中都会用到亚硫酰氯，因为它能产生活性如此之高的反应中间体,以至于你可以继续利用反应中间体,来制造一堆不同类型的化合物。

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