New tools and concepts for modern organic synthesis

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 573-586

  Ley, Steven V ^a   Baxendale, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EPIBATIDINE; HYDROXAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NEW DRUG; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; REAGENT; SILDENAFIL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; DRUG COATING; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; GENOMICS; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROENCAPSULATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTEOMICS; SOLID; TABLET FORMULATION; PHARMACEUTICS; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERS; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 0036691029     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd871     Document Type: Article

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