title: Microwave assisted synthesis: a new technology in drug discovery.
abstract: The interest in the microwave assisted organic synthesis has been growing during the recent years. It results from an increasing knowledge of fundamentals of the dielectric heating theory, availability of an equipment designed especially for the laboratory use as well as the discovery of the special techniques of the microwave syntheses. The efficiency of microwave flash-heating chemistry in dramatically reducing reaction times (reduced from days and hours to minutes and seconds) has recently been proven in several different fields of organic chemistry and this aspect is of great importance in high-speed combinatorial and medicinal chemistry. In this contribution, the current state of the art is summarized providing examples of the most recent applications in the field of microwave assisted synthesis of biologically active compounds both in heterocyclic and in peptide and peptidomimetic optimization.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Naples, Italy. santagad@unina.it
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Santagada
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Frecentese
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Perissutti
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fiorino
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Severino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Caliendo
mesh_terms: D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / Q000379:methods; D020650:Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques / Q000379:methods; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D008872:Microwaves; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds; D010455:Peptides