Novel approach for drug synthesis

Synthetic chemistry plays a key role in the preparation of new molecules that could serve as bioactive drugs. European researchers developed an innovative synthetic method for obtaining pure drug molecules of specified geometry.

It is of vital importance to obtain the correct configuration of small molecules during drug synthesis as different mirror images often have diverse biological properties. In chemistry, the term chirality is used to describe compounds with superimposing geometry. To control which mirror image of the product is formed, scientists must determine the absolute configuration at the carbon atom. In turn, this requires the synthesis of carbon-carbon bonds in a controlled manner.

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