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Chemistry World May 20, 2015 Katrina Kramer |
Taking the lead on drug discovery Researchers from the UK have developed a straightforward strategy for making compounds that have the potential to become clinical drugs. |
Chemistry World June 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success |
Chemistry World July 10, 2013 Karl Collins |
An 'Aye' for details Today, using methods developed by masters of their trade, the modern greats of total synthesis demonstrate that almost any molecule can be prepared given time and effort. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 |
Put the chemistry back in medicinal chemistry Today, synthetic skill is valued and appreciated much less in medicinal chemistry than in chemical development, though it is equally important for both. Much of the blame lies with the mismeasurement of productivity. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World April 2011 |
Molecular Obesity is Weighing Down Drug Discovery Medicinal chemistry's quest for potent drug candidates has resulted in molecules that are too large and too lipophilic for their own good. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Natural products can be ridiculously complicated. The sheer difficulty of the enterprise is traditionally what made pharmaceutical companies hire people who had worked in total synthesis. But, is total synthesis research still worth the effort? |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
Chemistry World November 25, 2014 James Urquhart |
Nanomolar chemistry enables 1500 experiments in a single day Chemists have conducted over 1500 chemistry experiments in under a day thanks to a miniaturized, high throughput automation platform they developed for identifying how synthetic molecules react under various conditions. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Step Change for Organic Synthesis US chemists discovered how to attack a complex molecule's unreactive carbon-hydrogen bonds, without resorting to wasteful synthetic aids like protecting and directing groups. |
Chemistry World March 22, 2012 Ross McLaren |
Back to the future: old reactions to help the new Researchers from the US have delved into the history of organic chemistry to help chemists better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule. |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline Problems develop when there are too few workhorse reactions, which may well generate compounds that are too similar to each other. Are we at that stage now? |
Chemistry World September 20, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
New Catalyst Rings the Changes Organic chemists in the US have developed a method to control the stereochemistry of a useful intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. |
Chemistry World October 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author seeks a cure for 'compound bloat' |
Chemistry World March 21, 2007 Alison Stoddart |
Synthesis Strategy Offers no Protection A radically different approach to constructing complex molecules could help to tap the pharmaceutical potential of natural products. |
Chemistry World November 2, 2015 |
Batzelladine B Of all the diverse substances that nature produces, the alkaloids -- small molecules containing basic nitrogen -- have had the greatest impact on human history and health. |
Chemistry World April 11, 2014 |
The sultan of synthesis Phil Baran is spurring organic chemists to rethink how they make complex compounds, as Mark Peplow discovers |
Chemistry World November 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple? |
Chemistry World July 14, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Natural Products Made Via a Single Parent Molecule Chemists in the US have taken inspiration from nature to devise a new concept for rapidly and efficiently synthesising structurally diverse natural products from a single common precursor. |
Chemistry World May 31, 2009 Nina Notman |
The natural approach to winning at drug discovery High throughput drug screening is often described as a casino, with the odds stacked on the side of success as long as a big enough library is used. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2012 Nina Notman |
A celebration of chemistry Simon Cotton's latest book, Every Molecule Tells a Story, is -- in his own words -- 'a celebration of molecules and of chemistry' aimed at school and university students, and their teachers. |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
Rising interest in compound bank David Fox argues for the creation of a centralized repository for small molecules to harness research efforts in drug discovery |
Chemistry World November 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Total synthesis is not immune to the vagaries of fickle fashion. |
Chemistry World September 6, 2006 Michael Gross |
Selective Shortcut Chemists have developed a simple catalyst that speeds up the synthesis of a chiral protected building block used in many complex syntheses. |
Chemistry World March 19, 2009 Manisha Lalloo |
Copper catalysts give meta aromatics UK Researchers have discovered that, simply by using a copper catalyst, they are able to perform tricky substitution reactions at a difficult position on benzene rings |
Chemistry World January 20, 2014 David Bradley |
Molecular librarians create druglike collections Finding biologically active small molecules with pharmaceutical potential is a bittersweet process. Now, a new approach to building libraries of diverse alkaloid-type structures has been developed by US chemists. |
Chemistry World August 16, 2009 Tom Bond |
Catalyst free carbon-carbon bond formation The method offers an environmentally friendly way to form one of the most important bonds in organic synthesis. |
Chemistry World November 2010 |
Carbon Couplers Take the Prize Three giants of organic chemistry, who pioneered palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions, have shared this year's Nobel prize. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2012 Philip Ball |
The automatic chemist Bartosz Grzybowski of Northwestern University -- who has already established himself as one of our most inventive chemists -- has unveiled a 'chemo-informatic' scheme, Chematica, that can stake a reasonable claim to being paradigm-changing. |
Chemistry World December 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline I've worked on two drug discovery efforts (one right after the other, as fate would have it) whose final compounds differed by essentially one methyl group from the starting points of each project. |
Chemistry World April 2011 |
Column: In the Pipeline If you look over the whole pharmacopeia, you'll see there are a lot of compounds that got their start as natural products. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Peace, love and understanding You'd think that the chemists and biologists working in drug discovery would understand each other pretty well by now. You would be wrong about that. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Kevin Rogers |
What future for small molecule therapy? Pharmaceutical companies overlook bench chemists at their peril |
Chemistry World February 21, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules. |
Chemistry World January 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Does chemical space limit a chemists' creativity? |
Chemistry World September 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author remembers leaving the ivory towers of academe to trade 'unusual and beautiful' for 'useful' |
Information Today June 17, 2014 |
Wiley Enhances Its Science Solutions Wiley acquired SimBioSys, a scientific software provider of tools used in the drug discovery process. |
Chemistry World January 7, 2010 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Chemists slam Science paper A paper published in the prestigious journal Science has caused a commotion in the chemistry community, with the synthetic processes discussed in the paper dismissed as nonsense and accusations of a failure in Science's peer review system. |
Chemistry World May 28, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Photo-finish for Olympicene UK chemists have synthesized and imaged a molecule that closely resembles the Olympic rings. |
Reactive Reports September 2007 David Bradley |
Insecticidal Synthesis The efforts of 40 PhD chemistry students and many others have found a way to construct azadirachtin -- a natural insecticide from the neem tree -- in a total synthesis of 64 individual chemical reaction steps. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? |
Chemistry World July 3, 2014 Tami Spector |
Of atoms and aesthetics Molecular aesthetics means many things to a few people. For some it means tangible aspects of compounds; for others yet, the ways that chemists represent molecules. |
Chemistry World December 8, 2011 Sarah Farley |
Capturing Compounds in Cages for Chemical Control Scientists from the UK have used a molecular capsule to control the reactivity of an organic compound. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2013 Edward Anderson |
More dead ends and detours en route to successful total synthesis In this book Miguel A Sierra and his co-authors revisit their 2004 coverage of 'tales of the unexpected' in complex molecule total synthesis. |
Chemistry World January 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Some medicinal chemists can't get enough fluorines in their molecules. The love-hate relationship is explained. |
Chemistry World January 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
New 'click' reaction to modify proteins Chemists in the US have discovered a new way to attach small molecules to proteins and peptides under mild, aqueous reaction conditions. |
Chemistry World July 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey Synthesizing molecules that force atoms into bizarre contortionist acts is the only way to learn. |
Chemistry World September 18, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Service with a smile Contract organic synthesis is a competitive business. Service companies in China and India offer their skills at prices it can be difficult for western firms to compete with. So how does a company stand out from the crowd? |
Chemistry World November 6, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror European chemists have discovered that both mirror-image forms of a particular compound can bind at the same time in the same site of an enzyme, a phenomenon that has never been seen before. |