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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 March 2012 |
Lead-oriented synthesis Ian Churcher and Alan Nadin call for the development of more robust synthetic tools to improve small molecule survival rates in the perilous journey from lead to drug |
Chemistry World February 8, 2006 Jon Evans |
To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space. |
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 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 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 May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
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 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 October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
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. |
Bio-IT World August 18, 2004 Kevin Davies |
In Praise of Chemical Diversity How to build better small-molecule libraries. |
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 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 November 16, 2012 Yuandi Li |
(+)-Myrrhanol C made Spanish chemists have completed the stereospecific total synthesis of (+)-myrrhanol C. This compound is a natural triterpene isolated from mastic gum, a substance well known for its medicinal properties as well as use in various cuisines. |
Chemistry World May 22, 2015 Jason Woolford |
Organic chemistry's complexity conundrum Process chemists in the US have developed a tool to generate a unique index they have termed a molecule's 'current complexity', which also accounts for changes over time due to the impact of new technologies. |
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 March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Kevin Rogers |
What future for small molecule therapy? Pharmaceutical companies overlook bench chemists at their peril |
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 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 June 5, 2012 Simon Perks |
Chiral separation with micro-flows How do you separate enantiomers without any kind of chiral recognition between molecules? The answer it seems is to use asymmetric flow in a micro-fluidic channel. |
Chemistry World January 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Does chemical space limit a chemists' creativity? |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 John Hayward |
Science of synthesis workbench edition: water in organic synthesis If a chemist is looking to do chemistry in (or on) water at the bench, Water in organic synthesis by Shu Kobayashi will be their guide. |
Chemistry World January 17, 2014 Katia Moskvitch |
Life may have begun in a tiny water droplet Chemical reactions run much faster and more efficiently when they take place in tiny droplets rather than in freestanding water -- such as a puddle or a lake, say researchers. |
Chemistry World August 1, 2013 James Urquhart |
Total synthesis outshines biotech route to anticancer drug US scientists have developed the first efficient and scalable route for the total synthesis of ingenol -- a plant-derived diterpenoid used to treat precancerous skin legions. |
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 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. |
Wired Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. |
Chemistry World November 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Total synthesis is not immune to the vagaries of fickle fashion. |
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' |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
Chemistry World October 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author seeks a cure for 'compound bloat' |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Computational chemists take Nobel prize The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Martin Karplus of Harvard University, US, Michael Levitt of Stanford University, US, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California, US, for "the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems." |
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 November 27, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Rolling boulders uphill A lot of preclinical projects don't even get off the ground, and many that do still never deliver anything to the development groups. |
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 October 12, 2011 Joanne Thomson |
Hot Chemistry Temperature played a crucial role in David MacMillan's decision to study chemistry. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
Chemistry World June 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe looks into his crystal ball to see what the future of medicinal chemistry might be |
Bio-IT World April 2007 Vicki Glaser |
Software Solutions for Medicinal Chemistry Driven by advances in chemical synthesis, instrumentation, and high-throughput and high-content screening technology, medicinal chemistry's transition from an art to a science is benefiting from a wealth of new software products, spanning both bio- and cheminformatics. |
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 March 5, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Forgotten synthetic PhD theses set to be given new lease of life A team of researchers have amassed a digital collection of more than 75,000 compounds from PhD theses that might otherwise have mouldered in obscurity. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2014 Andy Extance |
Linguistic statistics enable synthetic prophetics 'Modern computational linguistics is pattern recognition,' explains Bartosz Grzybowski, whose team has integrated the approach into Chematica, a synthetic pathway discovery tool scheduled for a November or December launch. |
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 December 17, 2012 Patrick Walter |
RSC acquires rights to Merck Index The Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired the rights to the 'bible' of chemistry, the Merck Index, familiar around the world to medicinal chemists and drug discovery scientists. |
Chemistry World July 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Opinion: Bench Monkey Synthesizing molecules that force atoms into bizarre contortionist acts is the only way to learn. |