Fluorinated pyrazoles: From synthesis to applications

PK Mykhailiuk - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fluorinated pyrazoles play an important role in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery,
agrochemistry, coordination chemistry, and organometallic chemistry. Since the early 1990s …

Put a ring on it: application of small aliphatic rings in medicinal chemistry

MR Bauer, P Di Fruscia, SCC Lucas… - RSC Medicinal …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Aliphatic three-and four-membered rings including cyclopropanes, cyclobutanes, oxetanes,
azetidines and bicyclo [1.1. 1] pentanes have been increasingly exploited in medicinal …

Chemistry-intuitive explanation of graph neural networks for molecular property prediction with substructure masking

Z Wu, J Wang, H Du, D Jiang, Y Kang, D Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in molecular property prediction, but
explaining their black-box predictions is still a challenge. Most existing explanation methods …

Next generation of fluorine-containing pharmaceuticals, compounds currently in phase II–III clinical trials of major pharmaceutical companies: new structural trends …

Y Zhou, J Wang, Z Gu, S Wang, W Zhu… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Fluoroorganic chemistry has become essential in the evolution of many different but
interconnected research fields. These include the development of new materials with a …

Hydrogen-bond donors in drug design

PW Kenny - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen-bond donors are seen to cause more problems for drug designers than hydrogen-
bond acceptors. Most of the polarity in drug-like compounds comes from hydrogen-bond …

hERG toxicity assessment: Useful guidelines for drug design

A Garrido, A Lepailleur, SM Mignani… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
All along the drug development process, one of the most frequent adverse side effects,
leading to the failure of drugs, is the cardiac arrhythmias. Such failure is mostly related to the …

CNS drug design: balancing physicochemical properties for optimal brain exposure

Z Rankovic - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
The human brain is a uniquely complex organ, which has evolved a sophisticated protection
system to prevent injury from external insults and toxins. Designing molecules that can …

The influence of lipophilicity in drug discovery and design

JA Arnott, SL Planey - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The role of lipophilicity in drug discovery and design is a critical one.
Lipophilicity is a key physicochemical property that plays a crucial role in determining …

Fluorine in pharmaceuticals: looking beyond intuition

K Muller, C Faeh, F Diederich - science, 2007 - science.org
Fluorine substituents have become a widespread and important drug component, their
introduction facilitated by the development of safe and selective fluorinating agents …

Ligand binding at the protein–lipid interface: strategic considerations for drug design

J Payandeh, M Volgraf - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Many drug targets are embedded within the phospholipid bilayer of cellular membranes,
including G protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, transporters and membrane-bound …