Addressing the medicinal chemistry bottleneck: A lean approach to centralized purification

ACS Combinatorial Science

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 520-526

  Weller, Harold N ^a   Nirschl, David S ^a   Paulson, James L ^a   Hoffman, Steven L ^a   Bullock, William H ^a  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

drug discovery; lean sigma; preparative LCMS; productivity; purification

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUG DISCOVERY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 84866081663     PISSN: 21568952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/co300075g     Document Type: Article

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