Medicinal Chemistry: Topics and Advances
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 5593
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medicinal chemistry; peptide chemistry; anticancer research; organic synthesis; antimicrobial peptides; structure–activity relationships
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a multidisciplinary research subject, medicinal chemistry addresses themes within biology, medicine, and chemistry by providing new chemical entities of pharmacological interest. Thus, in a successful drug discovery route, all of the chemical properties must be taken into account, including those related to structural symmetry of both the end products and the molecules encountered in the overall process as well as reagents, catalysts, and others. In this regard, the numerous advances in this field, spanning from theoretical design to synthetic methodologies, are contributing to more efficient and sophisticated strategies to access therapeutic potential. Therefore, this Special Issue will be devoted to topics and advances in the field of medicinal chemistry with a particular focus on symmetry, including but not limited to the role of chirality in bioactive molecules, such as small molecules, peptides, and peptidomimetics, in addition to related procedures, such as chiral separation, asymmetric synthesis, chiral auxiliaries, and catalysis. Original research and review articles within the general aims and scope of the journal are welcome.
Submit your paper and select the Journal “Symmetry” and the Special Issue “Medicinal Chemistry: Topics and Advances” via: MDPI submission system. Please contact the journal editor Ida Li. Our papers will be published on a rolling basis and we will be pleased to receive your submission once you have finished it.
Dr. Francesco Merlino
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Symmetry is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- Amino acids
- Computer-aided drug design
- Organic synthesis
- Stereochemistry
- Structural characterization
- Synthetic technology
