Recent Advances in Medicinal Chemistry: Green Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2025) | Viewed by 13672
Special Issue Editors
Interests: prodrug strategy; carbohydrate-based prodrugs; drug targeting; drug discovery
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Dear Colleagues,
Green chemistry is a discipline of great interest in medicinal chemistry. It involves all fields of chemistry and is based on the principle of conducting chemical reactions while protecting the environment at the same time, through the use of chemical procedures able to avoid pollution. Green synthetic techniques and the use of alternative energy sources as tools to obtain chemical reactions have drawn the attention of the pharmaceutical industry and academia. Greener synthetic routes to develop bioactive compounds; the use of ultrasound, microwaves, flow chemistry and other approaches for the synthesis of biologically active molecules; as well as safe transformations by degradable or recyclable reagents are necessary so that green chemistry can further provide its contribution to the quality of environmental matrices, tightly related to the good state of health of humans, thus joining in combination to the purposes of good health promoted by pharmaceutical chemistry.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect research articles, reviews, and perspectives illustrating the recent advances in the green synthesis of biologically active molecules, even focusing on the pharmacological use of these compounds in preclinical or application studies. As Guest Editors, we warmly invite authors working in this field to contribute their recent studies to this Special Issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Maria Grazia Rimoli
Prof. Dr. Francesco Frecentese
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green synthetic approaches
- drug discovery
- green chemistry
- green solvents
- green reagents
- bioactive molecule
- biological applications
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