This review covers recent advances in the implementation of enabling chemistry technologies into the drug discovery process. Areas covered include parallel synthesis chemistry, high-throughput experimentation, automated synthesis and purification methods, flow chemistry methodology including photochemistry, electrochemistry, and the handling of “dangerous” reagents. Also featured are advances i...

This review covers recent advances in the implementation of enabling chemistry technologies into the drug discovery process. Areas covered include parallel synthesis chemistry, high-throughput experimentation, automated synthesis and purification methods, flow chemistry methodology including photochemistry, electrochemistry, and the handling of "dangerous" reagents. Also featured are advances i...

In the post-genome era, epigenetics has received increasing attentions in recent years. The post-translational modifications (PTMs) of four core histones play central roles in epigenetic regulation of eukaryotic genome by either directly altering the biophysical properties of nucleosomes or by recruiting other effector proteins. In order to study the biological functions and structural mechanis...

Poly(organo)phosphazenes are a family of inorganic molecular hybrid polymers with very diverse properties due to the vast array of organic substituents possible. This tutorial review aims to introduce the basics of the synthetic chemistry of polyphosphazenes, detailing for readers outside the field the essential knowledge required to design and prepare polyphosphazenes with desired properties. ...

Polar order in the biosphere is limited to nanometer-sized domains, occurs with essentially complete cancellation, or is avoided on purpose. One thus wonders whether large-scale polar order is even possible, and this question is the subject of the dipole alignment problem. We addressed this challenge with an interdisciplinary approach bringing together elements of mathematics, electronic struct...

What’s the difference between “biological chemistry” and “chemical biology”? One of us (JMG) received his Ph.D. at an institution where the biochemistry building was called the Laboratory of Chemical Biology, but that was a long time ago and things have changed. Biological chemistry (or biochemistry), that is the study of life processes at the molecular level, is now quite distinct from chemica...

Protein-directed dynamic combinatorial chemistry is an emerging technique for efficient discovery of novel chemical structures for binding to a target protein. Typically, this method relies on a library of small molecules that react reversibly with each other to generate a combinatorial library. The components in the combinatorial library are at equilibrium with each other under thermodynamic c...

Organophosphorus compounds are important in organic chemistry. This review article covers emerging, powerful synthetic approaches to organophosphorus compounds by homolytic substitution at phosphorus with a carbon-centered radical. Phosphination reagents include diphosphines, chalcogenophosphines and stannylphosphines, which bear a weak P-heteroatom bond for homolysis. This article deals with t...

Abstract: Hydrazones are an important class of compounds found in many synthetic products. Due to their importance in synthetic chemistry, the present article reports the synthesis of a new series of ten compounds based on the coupling of 2-oxo-3(2H)-benzothiazoleacetic acid, hydrazide and 2-thioxo-3(2H)-benzothiazoleacetic acid, hydrazide with different aldehydes. The structures of the synthes...

Isatin derivatives are one of most potent anticonvulsant agent of natural origin. It has display potent anticonvulsant effect in a wide variety of preclinical anticonvulsant models. Till date various isatin derivatives have been synthesized and evaluated for anticonvulsant activity. This review is an attempt to compile the medicinal chemistry of various synthesized isatin analogs. Isatin and it...