Medicinal Chemistry News for November 2014

Catalyst-Where-You-Want-It Method Expands the Possibilities for New Drug Development Catalyst-Where-You-Want-It Method Expands the Possibilities for New Drug Development

Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry have described a method for creating and modifying organic compounds that overcomes a major limitation of previous methods. The advance opens up a large number of novel chemical structures for synthesis and evaluation, for example, as candidate pharmaceuticals.
13 November, 2014