Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Chemistry World: Drugs, the permanent way

Exceptions to a long-held rule against chemically bonding to biological targets are powering new cancer medicines, finds Andy Extance

https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/covalent-inhibitor-drugs/2500494.article

Late-stage functionalization with strain-release warheads enables tunable covalent inhibition

Zachary P. Shultz, Ansar Lee-Sam, Yun-Pu Chang, Luxin Sun, Dylan Grassie, Alessio Gabellini, Kyle Pedretty, Thomas Scattolin, Victoria Izumi...