<p>Nowadays, the pipelines of drug candidates leading to new small-molecule drugs are fed by leads selected from large compound libraries produced by parallel and combinatorial synthetic methods. Tibetan monks long ago discovered how to improve the effectiveness of their prayers by operating prayer wheels in parallel. In traditional chemistry, however, new compounds were synthesized and screened individually. A new era began in the second half of the last century. Following a few attempts, two new methods spread which significantly increased the efficiency of chemical synthesis and screening of compounds: the parallel and combinatorial methods.</p>

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The parallel and combinatorial synthesis and screening in drug discovery

  • Árpád Furka

摘要

Nowadays, the pipelines of drug candidates leading to new small-molecule drugs are fed by leads selected from large compound libraries produced by parallel and combinatorial synthetic methods. Tibetan monks long ago discovered how to improve the effectiveness of their prayers by operating prayer wheels in parallel. In traditional chemistry, however, new compounds were synthesized and screened individually. A new era began in the second half of the last century. Following a few attempts, two new methods spread which significantly increased the efficiency of chemical synthesis and screening of compounds: the parallel and combinatorial methods.