Virtual exploration of the small-molecule chemical universe below 160 daltons

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1504-1508

  Fink, Tobias ^a   Bruggesser, Heinz ^a   Reymond, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemoinformatics; Combinatorial chemistry; Computer chemistry; Drug design; Molecular diversity

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHEMICAL BONDS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; STABILITY;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; DRUG MOLECULES; SYNTHETIC FEASIBILITY; VIRTUAL EXPLORATION;

MOLECULES;

ALKENE; ALLENE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HALOGEN; HYDROCARBON; HYDROGEN; NEW DRUG; NITROGEN; OCTANOL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; HYDROGEN BOND; ION CHANNEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

EID: 16244388286     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200462457     Document Type: Article

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