Indoles as Promising Scaffold for Drug Discovery: Synthesis, Bioactivities and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 1608
Special Issue Editor
Interests: drug design; small-molecule drugs; methodologies for synthetic drugs
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Dear Colleagues,
Indole scaffolds represent one of the most promising heterocycles found in natural and synthetic sources and have been shown to possess various biological activities, including anti-inflammatory, antitubercular, antimalarial, anti-HIV, anticancer, antifungal, and antimicrobial activity, etc. New advances in synthetic methodologies that enable rapid access to a wide variety of indole derivatives are of critical importance to medicinal chemists as it can readily generate bulk quantities of desired compounds to discover new and effective pharmaceuticals among indole derivatives.
This Special Issue of Molecules will comprise original research articles and reviews in the field of indole chemistry considering drug design, new synthetic methodologies, process chemistry, and the biological activities of indole derivatives.
Dr. Qiuqin He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- indole derivatives
- drug design
- synthetic methodologies
- process chemistry
- biological activities
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