Organic Synthesis: A Brief History (2/2)
Different Aspects of Organic Synthesis The drive to improve the efficiency of the drug discovery process has created the need for rapid compound synthesis and efficient methods for screening compounds for biological activity. The fields of combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening matured during the early 1990s to meet the challenges of modern pharmaceutical research. Solid-phase […]
Organic Synthesis: A Brief History (1/2)
Introduction At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the state of the art and science of organic synthesis is as healthy and vigorous is as ever. The birth of this exhilarating, multifaceted, and boundless science is marked by Wohler’s synthesis of urea in 1828. This milestone event – as trivial as it may seem by […]
