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Custom Carbon-14 Radiolabelling: investing to meet new challenges. Winter 09

By Dave Roberts
One consequence of an increasing demand from regulators for robust quantitative data on the behaviour of new drugs in man and for information on the fate of pharmaceuticals in the environ...
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Overcoming the limitations of chemical structure. Summer 09

By Dr Andy Vinter, Dr Steve Gardner and Dr Sally Rose
The pharmaceutical business has been profoundly hampered by a ubiquitous and unexpected obstacle – the way it draws its chemical compounds. Scientists, patent agents and business decisi...
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Microwave-Assisted Orgainc Synthesis - an Enabling Technology with Disruptive Potential.. Fall 08

By Dr Anil Vasudevan
Since the original publications on the benefits of conducting organic reactions in a microwave by Gedye1 and Majetich2 in the mid-80s, the uptake of this technique was sluggish at best fo...
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Zebrafish: a versatile in vivo model for drug safety assessment. Fall 06

Dr Wendy Alderton and Dr Stéphane Berghmans
Safety pharmacology has become an integral part of non-clinical safety assessment for new chemical entities in the past two decades1.The relative novelty of this discipline has granted it...
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Medicinal Chemistry: progress through innovation. Summer 06

By Dr Terry Hart
Medicinal chemistry is a specialised science that has evolved to encompass a broad range of disciplines concerned with the identification, synthesis and development of drug-like compounds...
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Microwave-assisted synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry a current perspective and future prospects. Summer 06

By Dr Richard Wagner
In the past five years there has been a dramatic upsurge in the use of microwave heating within the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate the chemical synthesis of new chemical entities.T...
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The Role of the Medicinal Chemist in the Drug Discovery Process: current status and future prospects. Winter 05

By Dr Stevan W Djuric
The need for the pharmaceutical industry to produce a constant stream of new NCEs has never been more paramount but with constantly changing R&D paradigms what is the role of the modern m...
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Radiosynthesis; a vital role supporting drug development? Fall 04

By Dave Roberts and Professor Bill Lockley The key in vivo drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies continue to be undertaken using radiolabelled versions of drug molecules. Traditionally, the preparation of these isotopically ... Read more...

SCAVENGER strategies in organic synthesis. Spring 04

By Professor Peter Wipf and Dr Claire M. Coleman Part 1 of this article (DDW,Winter 2003/4) discussed the fundamental principles of the use of scavenging techniques in combinatorial and organic synthesis. In this article, more recent de... Read more...

SCAVENGER strategies in organic synthesis. Winter 2003

By Professor Peter Wipf and Dr Claire M. Coleman Over the past 20 years combinatorial chemistry has proved to be an important tool for the generation of large numbers of compounds required for drug discovery programmes.This two-part art... Read more...