Chemical writing: the term "synthesis route" [closed]








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Can someone tell me, which of the following terms should be used or avoided? (Google shows the presence of all the candidate terms.)


* synthesis route
* synthetic route
* route of synthesis
* synthesis pathway
* synthetic pathway


Imagine for example a sentence such as "A new ... was developed."


