Divergent gold catalysis: unlocking molecular diversity through catalyst control

CC Chintawar, AK Yadav, A Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The catalyst-directed divergent synthesis, commonly termed as “divergent catalysis”, has
emerged as a promising technique as it allows chartering of structurally distinct products …

Toward multi-targeted platinum and ruthenium drugs—a new paradigm in cancer drug treatment regimens?

RG Kenny, CJ Marmion - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
While medicinal inorganic chemistry has been practised for over 5000 years, it was not until
the late 1800s when Alfred Werner published his ground-breaking research on coordination …

Autonomous discovery in the chemical sciences part I: Progress

CW Coley, NS Eyke, KF Jensen - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This two‐part Review examines how automation has contributed to different aspects of
discovery in the chemical sciences. In this first part, we describe a classification for …

Switchable 1, 2-rearrangement enables expedient synthesis of structurally diverse fluorine-containing scaffolds

Y Ping, Q Pan, Y Guo, Y Liu, X Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Skeletal rearrangement that changes the connectivity of the molecule via cleavage and
reorganization of carbon–carbon bonds is a fundamental and powerful strategy in complex …

The symbiotic relationship between drug discovery and organic chemistry

OO Grygorenko, DM Volochnyuk… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
All pharmaceutical products contain organic molecules; the source may be a natural product
or a fully synthetic molecule, or a combination of both. Thus, it follows that organic chemistry …

The medicinal chemistry in the era of machines and automation: recent advances in continuous flow technology

A Gioiello, A Piccinno, AM Lozza… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Medicinal chemistry plays a fundamental and underlying role in chemical biology,
pharmacology, and medicine to discover safe and efficacious drugs. Small molecule …

Ni-catalyzed ligand-controlled divergent and selective synthesis

Y Ke, W Li, W Liu, W Kong - Science China Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Scaffold diversity is a key feature of a compound library and plays a pivotal role in its
success in biological screening. Therefore, it is highly desirable to develop efficient …

Switching between the [2π+ 2σ] and Hetero‐[4π+ 2σ] Cycloaddition Reactivity of Bicyclobutanes with Lewis Acid Catalysts Enables the Synthesis of Spirocycles and …

JJ Wang, L Tang, Y Xiao, WB Wu, G Wang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The exploration of the complex chemical diversity of bicyclo [n. 1.1] alkanes and their use as
benzene bioisosteres has garnered significant attention over the past two decades …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity of the reaction mechanisms of SAM-dependent enzymes

Q Sun, M Huang, Y Wei - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is ubiquitous in living organisms and is of great significance in
metabolism as a cofactor of various enzymes. Methyltransferases (MTases), a major group …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in construction of polycyclic natural product scaffolds via one-pot reactions involving alkyne annulation

L Zheng, R Hua - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polycyclic scaffolds are omnipresent in natural products and drugs, and the synthetic
strategies and methods toward construction of these scaffolds are of particular importance …