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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 August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
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 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 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 June 24, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Aryl rings get a fluorine fix A mild and effective method for coupling trifluoromethyl groups on to aryl rings has been developed by US chemists. |
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' |
Chemistry World June 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Chemists are human. Humans are hierarchical. Therefore...well, therefore, you'll find a number of different roles and levels for scientists in a drug company's labs. Here's a rough ordering, from least experienced to most. |
Chemistry World October 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe investigates the comeback combinatorial chemistry has made in the field of drug discovery |
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 October 12, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Chemistry Nobel laureate Richard Heck dies Richard Heck, the organic chemist who shared the 2010 chemistry Nobel prize with for developing palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions, has died aged 84. |
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 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 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 October 6, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Trio share Nobel for palladium-catalysed cross-coupling Richard Heck of the University of Delaware in Newark, US, Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue University, US, and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University in Japan, independently developed palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions as a way to forge new carbon-carbon bonds with precision |
Chemistry World July 14, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Multicomponent reactions step up a gear Dutch chemists have taken multicomponent reactions to the next level, combining a total of eight different starting materials in a single flask, bringing together three different multicomponent reactions and making nine new bonds in a single step. |
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 August 15, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Trifluoromethylation Made Easy US researchers have discovered a simple, low-cost way to add fluorine atoms to heteroaromatic rings. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Under pressure Someone interviewing for a synthetic chemistry position had better know his or her organic chemistry. It's fair to ask questions that will make sure of that. But does a candidate need to know the curly-arrow details of reactions that they'll never run? |
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 September 18, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Shining a light on amine synthesis A new method for site selective amination of aromatic organic compounds has been developed by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World October 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author seeks a cure for 'compound bloat' |
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 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 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 August 2009 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author considers what makes a good looking drug molecule - and how beauty is in the eye of the beholder |
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Name reactions: how does the label stick? Some of these names go back to the 19th century, and many more of them come from the first decades of the 20th. Once in a while, I wonder if the tradition is dying out. Are we still naming chemical reactions after their discoverers? |
Chemistry World February 6, 2011 Laura Howes |
Cells as test tubes Chemists have used living cells as test tubes to carry out chemical reactions never before seen within living cells. |
Chemistry World October 29, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Two metals are better than one UK chemists have developed reagents that can metallate ethers and ethene at room temperature without them disintegrating. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Engineering serendipity At this stage in the world of organic chemistry, you'd have to think that many of the great reactions that can be stumbled across with known reagents have probably been found. |
Chemistry World January 2010 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline I've recently marked my 20th year of drug discovery research, which prompted me to think about what has changed since I started work in the industry. |
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 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 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. |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Dick Wife An interview with the chemical IT scientist and co-founder of SORD, a scientific publishing company that seeks to solve the problem of organizing the myriad of undocumented chemistry and the chaotic mess of the commercial database. |
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 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 April 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Recruiting electrophiles for organic cross-coupling Chemists in the US have taken an unconventional approach to carbon cross-coupling and in doing so have potentially opened the door to the rapid and efficient synthesis of a wide range of organic compounds. |
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 April 14, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Osmium and pyridine ring together Organic chemists in China have found a way to put osmium into a pyridine ring - leading to the synthesis of the first metallapyridinium complex. |
Bio-IT World August 18, 2004 Kevin Davies |
In Praise of Chemical Diversity How to build better small-molecule libraries. |
Chemistry World September 9, 2011 James Mitchell Crow |
High-throughput catalyst screening for the masses Using nothing more than the standard chemistry lab equipment, researchers in the US have successfully turned the discovery of new catalytic reactions into a high-throughput process. |
Chemistry World June 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline The author, a medicinal chemist working on preclinical drug discovery, takes a look at the differences between chemists and biologists working on the same team. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Death of a reagent Anyone who's been practicing organic chemistry for a while can think back to reactions and reagents that were once in far wider use than they are today. |
Chemistry World March 10, 2006 |
Dual Organometallics Enhance Zinc Reactivity Chemists have synthesised organometallic compounds that enable zinc to participate in directed metalation of organic substrates. |
Chemistry World May 24, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Palladium Coupling in Fewer Steps Look out Suzuki - Canadian chemists have successfully joined up simple benzene ring-like aromatics without any pre-activation. |
Chemistry World June 2011 |
Column: Totally Synthetic I've never heard of the Polonovski-Potier reaction, the keystone of a remarkable synthesis by a team led by Tohru Fukuyama at the University of Tokyo, Japan. |
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 July 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe ponders the possibility of phosphatase inhibitors |