Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Activity of Pharmaceutically Important Drug Molecules

Dear Colleagues,

The drug discovery process is a challenging multi-step path towards the identification of potential new medicines. The driving force of this process is an unmet medical need for new drugs to prevent disease, fight pathology, or diagnose medical conditions for which there are currently no suitable medical products. There is an ongoing intensive search for drug-like molecules that can be obtained via chemical synthesis from smaller chemical building blocks or isolated from natural sources such as plants. Currently, the drugs on the market are of both natural and synthetic origin; however, there are also semi-synthetic drugs, which are generally obtained by converting starting materials from natural sources into final products via chemical reactions. This Special Issue will publish papers that describe the synthesis, characterization, and biological activity of important synthetic, semi-synthetic, and natural drug molecules. We welcome research articles, as well as those describing cytotoxic chemical libraries that include bioactive compounds/molecules with novel substitution patterns. Given the recent developments in drug design and organic and inorganic chemistry, review articles on these topics will also be considered.

Dr. Vivek K. Bajpai
Dr. Shruti Shukla
Guest Editors

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