3-(Dimethylamino)-1-(2-thienyl)-1-propanol

3-(Dimethylamino)-1-(2-thienyl)-1-propanol is used mainly as a crucial chiral building block in pharmaceutical synthesis, most notably as an intermediate for the antidepressant drug Duloxetine (Cymbalta), but also as a precursor in developing other therapeutic agents for neurological conditions and in synthesizing fine chemicals, agrochemicals, and dyes due to its versatile structure with amine and alcohol groups.