Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

While there have been many advances in R&D, there is still a large number of drugs that failed in clinical development due to lack of efficacy. This challenge highlights the critical role of ...

For Tim Cernak of the University of Michigan, small certainly is beautiful. He and his colleagues have redesigned some of the most popular reactions in medicinal chemistry so that they work in ...

The EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry is organised by the Division for Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology (DMCCB) of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS), on behalf of the European ...

Synthetic organic chemists are accustomed to pushing electrons around. They use reducing reagents to force electrons into molecules and oxidizing reagents to strip them out. But using electrons on ...

Benzoxaboroles, a class of cyclic boronic acids characterised by a boron atom embedded within a five‐membered oxaborole ring fused to a benzene nucleus, have emerged as a versatile scaffold in ...

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