Intermediate product

Under an intermediate or intermediate is understood in chemistry, a reaction product which is produced in a chemical reaction, but is either not isolated from economic considerations and not sold or for technical or chemical reasons can not be isolated. At reaktionsmechanistischer viewing a intermediate is a molecule which functions both as a product of a reaction step, as well as a reactant of the following in a multistage reaction.

And biochemical reactions in the expression is sometimes used to refer to biochemical reaction products ( for example, within the body ) as intermediates to the actual end product.

To draw conceptual boundaries between raw materials, intermediate and end product is often only possible arbitrarily. The term is often subject to the intermediate approach: So Urea, however, is for many companies a final product for other manufacturers only an intermediate for the production of melamine and for the farmers as fertilizer a commodity.

In the food industry intermediate product for further processing identifies a specific product that stands between raw material and finished product.

Intermediates are often referred to as an intermediate, in particular the intermediate particles in reactions in particle physics.