Novel method can efficiently create several 'building blocks' of pharmaceutical drugs
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Several drugs, including those for depression, schizophrenia, and malaria, would not exist if not for a type of organic chemical compound called alicyclic compounds. These compounds are 3-D structures formed when three or more carbon atoms join in a ring via covalent bonds, but the ring is not aromatic.