Picornaviridae represent a very large family of small RNA viruses, some of which are the cause of important human and animal diseases. Since no specific therapy against any of these viruses currently exists, palliative symptomatic treatments are employed. The early steps of the picornavirus replicative cycle seem to be privileged targets for some antiviral compounds like disoxaril and pirodavir...

Sustainable methods for producing enantiopure drugs have been developed. Chlorohydrins as building blocks several β-blockers synthesized in high enantiomeric purity by chemo-enzymatic methods. The yield of the chlorohydrins increased use catalytic amount base. reason this was found to be reduced formation dimeric by-products compared higher concentration An overall reduction reagents and reacti...