To an outsider, the exploration of thousands of molecules to find a small number of potential candidate drugs must appear enormously wasteful, but many medicinal chemists would defend this waste as unavoidable. Here, I provide evidence that suggests that modern medicinal chemists are overproductive in that they synthesise many more compounds than are required to achieve the objectives of the pr...

the heterocyclic compounds have a great importance in medicinal chemistry. one of the most important heterocycles in medicinal chemistry are quinazolines possessing wide spectrum of biological properties like antibacterial, antifungal, anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory, anti-hiv, anticancer and analgesic activities. this skeleton is an important pharmacophore considered as a privileged structur...

medicinal chemistry depends on many other disciplines ranging from organic chemistry andpharmacology to computational chemistry. typically medicinal chemists use the moststraightforward ways to prepare compounds. the validation of any design project comes from thebiological testing.studies of the binding site of vinblastine by a single cross—linking experiment identified it asbeing between resi...