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New Tools for Molecule Makers : Emerging Technologies
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ley, Steven V. Baxendale, Ian R. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | If one reflects for a moment about the current practices used by a skilled synthesis chemist, we must be impressed by the sheer complexity of what can be achieved. Moreover, the impact on society is staggering, given the array of healing drugs, compounds that protect and guarantee our food supply to the colours and materials of our modern society. All the sciences benefit to some degree from our ability to assemble novel molecular architectures that display function and beneficial properties. The synthesis chemist’s ability to understand and create these selective features at a molecular level from simple building blocks is truly awe-inspiring; especially given that a combination of only a small selection of nine different elements of the periodic table and a molecular weight limit of 500 Daltons can, in principle, generate a difficult to comprehend number of 10 different molecules! Despite the obvious achievements of chemical synthesis, it is not without its problems. These relate to its current sustainability as a discipline, where we see issues of poor atom and step economy. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://community.dur.ac.uk/i.r.baxendale/papers/Beilstein.2009.65.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.beilstein-institut.de/download/624/05_ley.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
