CHIMIA (Oct 2020)

Pushing the Frontiers of Accessible Chemical Space to Unleash Design Creativity and Accelerate Drug Discovery

  • Thomas C. Fessard,
  • Kristina Goncharenko,
  • Quentin Lefebvre,
  • Christophe Salomé

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2020.803
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 74, no. 10
pp. 803 – 807

Abstract

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In highly competitive research environments, the ability to access more complex structural spaces efficiently is a predictor of a company's ability to generate novel IP-protected small molecule candidates with adequate properties, hence filling their development pipelines. SpiroChem is consistently developing new synthetic methodologies and strategies to access complex molecular structure, thereby facilitating and accelerating small molecule drug discovery. Pushing the limits of what are perceived as complex molecular structures allows SpiroChem and its clients to unleash creativity and explore meaningful chemical spaces, which are under-exploited sources of novel active molecules. In this article, we explain how we differentiated ourselves in a globalized R&D environment and we provide several snapshots of how efficient methodologies can generate complex structures, rapidly.

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