title: Automated medicinal chemistry.
abstract: With the advent of high throughput technologies in biological screening in the 1980s, providing sufficient numbers of small molecules for screening became a bottleneck in the drug discovery process. Combinatorial chemistry was the first attempt by chemists to address this issue. However, since its first applications, combinatorial chemistry has evolved rapidly into diverse fields. This review will focus on the evolution and the current status of what we refer to today as automated medicinal chemistry.
authors.affiliation: Schering AG, Medicinal Chemistry, 13342 Berlin, Germany. marcus.koopitz@schering.de
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koppitz
authors.forename: Knut
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eis
mesh_terms: D020650:Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D015195:Drug Design; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations