While surfing the internet for some work related info, I came across the term click chemistry. First I thought it had to do with mouse clicks or some other digital phenomena. Surprisingly it is a rather new term in chemistry.
Click chemistry is about synthesis of rather complex molecules in small steps. The main purpose is to quickly examine the pool of drug candiates. Drug testing nowadays is done by creating a molecule and testing its effects on living creatures. By ruling out all non-active substances new drugs are found.
Based on a set of criteria which are based on natural environment properties, the pool of drug candidates is drastically lowered. This will hopefully speed up the discovery of new drugs. Only question remains is what to do when all substances are tested…
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/chemical-synthesis/technology-spotlights/click.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_chemistry
http://curlyarrow.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-is-click-chemistry.html
