The Cu(OTf)2 catalysed microwave assisted synthesis of a new scaffold, 7-aryl-7,8-dihydropyrido[4,3-c]pyridazin-5(6H)-one [PDF]
The synthesis of novel 7-aryl-7,8-dihydropyrido[4,3-c]pyridazin-5(6H)-ones is described including a one-step Mannich-type reaction followed by intramolecular ring closure of ethyl 3-methylpyridazine-4- carboxylate and aldimines, catalysed by the Lewis ...
De Coen, Laurens +5 more
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Looking back and moving forward in medicinal chemistry
Medicinal chemistry is a fast-evolving interdisciplinary research area which aims to improve human life by developing drugs to combat diseases. Nature Communications interviewed three scientists, Daniele Castagnolo (Associate Professor at University ...
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Current applications and future potential for bioinorganic chemistry in the development of anticancer drugs [PDF]
This review illustrates notable recent progress in the field of medicinal bioinorganic chemistry as many new approaches to the design of innovative metal-based anticancer drugs are emerging.
Aird +75 more
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Development of Advanced Macrosphelides: Potent Anticancer Agents
Synthetic approaches to macrosphelide derivatives, based on medicinal chemistry, are summarized. This review contains conventional medicinal chemistry approaches, combinatorial chemistry, fluorous tagging techniques and affinity chromatography ...
Seung-Mann Paek
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An Element of Community: EFMC, the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry
The Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology of the Swiss Chemical Society is an active member of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC), whose mission is to advance the science of medicinal chemistry in Europe. EFMC promotes
Yves P. Auberson
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Metal Complexes and Medicine: A Successful Combination
Since the start of our independent research at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Zurich in 2009, our group has been, among other topics, working on the use of metal complexes in medicinal chemistry.
Gilles Gasser
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Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes–7
Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes is a series of editorials which is published on a biannual basis by the Editorial Board of the Medicinal Chemistry section of the journal Molecules [...]
Michael Gütschow +47 more
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Synthetic Analogues of the Snail Toxin 6-Bromo-2-mercaptotryptamine Dimer (BrMT) Reveal That Lipid Bilayer Perturbation Does Not Underlie Its Modulation of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels [PDF]
Drugs do not act solely by canonical ligand–receptor binding interactions. Amphiphilic drugs partition into membranes, thereby perturbing bulk lipid bilayer properties and possibly altering the function of membrane proteins.
Aldrich, Richard W. +12 more
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Structure-based design and synthesis of antiparasitic pyrrolopyrimidines targeting pteridine reductase 1 [PDF]
The treatment of Human African Trypanosomiasis remains a major unmet health need in sub-Saharan Africa. Approaches involving new molecular targets are important and pteridine reductase 1 (PTR1), an enzyme that reduces dihydrobiopterin in Trypanosoma spp.
Abedawn I. Khalaf +41 more
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Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes–4
Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes is a series of Editorials, which is published on a biannual basis by the Editorial Board of the Medicinal Chemistry section of the journal Molecules. [...]
Arduino A Mangoni +24 more
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