Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

For Tim Cernak of the University of Michigan, small certainly is beautiful. He and his colleagues have redesigned some of the most popular reactions in medicinal chemistry so that they work in ...

Synthetic organic chemists are accustomed to pushing electrons around. They use reducing reagents to force electrons into molecules and oxidizing reagents to strip them out. But using electrons on ...

The early days of drug discovery and development were lonely: scientists in the 19 th century made discoveries often driven by serendipity. Although fortuitous findings continue to happen, we ...