Research
Finding new life in old chemicals for pharmaceuticals using light-driven chemistry
Phys.org ·
The Brief
- Drug companies keep large libraries of chemical compounds that are screened for possible pharmaceutical use.
- Sulfonamides, a class of these compounds, are used in antibiotics and in drugs for type 2 diabetes, hypertension and inflammation.
- The reported work uses light-driven chemistry to create new compounds from existing chemical libraries.
Why it matters
It suggests a way to reuse existing compound libraries to find new drug candidates, which may speed up pharmaceutical development.
Who’s affected
- pharmaceutical chemists and drug discovery researchers
- #photochemistry
- #drug discovery
- #sulfonamides
- #chemical libraries
- #light-driven chemistry
Drug companies maintain large libraries of chemical compounds that can be screened for potential use in the development of new pharmaceuticals. One class of these compounds, sulfonamides, is used in antibiotics and in drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, hypertension and inflammation…
Timeline
Chemistry News article on light-driven modification of chemical library compounds published
Chemistry News - Biochemistry, Polymers, Materials Science
Finding new life in old chemicals for pharmaceuticals using light-driven chemistry