With fluoroaromatic compounds increasingly employed as scaffolds in agrochemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients, the development of methods which facilitate regioselective functionalisation their C–H C–F bonds is a frontier...

INTRODUCTION The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans is widely used for genetic studies as well as a living biomonitor in ecotoxicology. In this study, we investigated whether C. elegans may represent a suitable model for rapid preliminary toxicity studies of pharmaceutical compounds. METHODS For this purpose, we used the EGFR kinase inhibitors BIBU1361, BIBX1382, and an inactive chemical a...

The global marine pharmaceutical pipeline consists of three Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs, one EU registered drug, 13 natural products (or derivatives thereof) in different phases of the clinical pipeline and a large number of marine chemicals in the preclinical pipeline. In the United States there are three FDA approved marine-derived drugs, namely cytarabine (Cytosar-U((R)...