Honghui Hu of Wanhuida Intellectual Property considers the impact of the structure-activity relationship on the inventiveness assessment of pharmaceutical compounds Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH ...

Although originally created merely as repositories for compounds synthesized within an organization, chemical databases can now be searched to give novel ideas for lead discovery. The familiar ...

A covalent bond is a shared pair of electrons between two non-metal atoms, for example carbon dioxide. Figure caption, Two atoms sharing a pair of electrons. A covalent bond happens when the positive ...

In drug discovery, virtual screening is a fast and cost-effective way of narrowing down vast chemical libraries to identify the most promising hits, reducing synthesis and testing requirements while ...

A team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, made small tweaks to the molecular structure of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to see if it could be turned into an effective ...