Chemistry for Life
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2021) | Viewed by 2365
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; selenium compounds
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Interests: organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; asymmetric synthesis; organoselenium compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chemistry influences many areas of our everyday life and novel chemical processes are continuously being developed in order to make life easier. Innovative synthetic pathways and approaches are designed to accelerate and increase the efficiency of obtaining compounds for the medical, agrochemical, petrochemical, and manufacturing industry sectors, among others. Old reactions are constantly reinterpreted to fulfill the rules of green chemistry and the green economy. In this context, organochalcogen chemistry is worth mentioning, since its interest within a green chemistry perspective has been recently renewed. Stereospecific, stereoselective, stereoconvergent, and stereodivergent approaches are implemented to have a thorough control of the chirality throughout the chemical transformation. All of those actions are conducted based on the requirements of particular industrial sectors necessary to develop and meet the needs of the consumer. Nevertheless, starting from basic synthetic problems to specific large-scale production issues, synthetical protocols face many practical challenges. For this Special Issue, we aim at collecting innovative research articles and reviews that will present novel solutions for current problems in the field of organic synthesis, with emphasis on the preparation of new compounds and new reactions that facilitate the development and improvement in chemical biology, material sciences, nanotechnology, and medicine.
Dr. Luca Sancineto
Dr. Agata Pacula
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- synthesis
- biological evaluation
- chirality
- chalcogens
