Heterocyclic Compounds: Design, Synthesis, and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 8375
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic synthesis; indoles; biindole compounds, natural products; nitrosoarenes; alkynes; bioactive compounds; annulations; cycloaddition, material science
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Dear Colleagues,
In the almost two hundred years of history of synthetic organic chemistry (starting from the milestone of the Wohler’s preparation of urea in 1828), heterocycles have occupied an ever-growing space both in the research of academia and industry. Novel methodologies of preparations and novel characteristics of heterocyclic products are frequently and regularly developed every day.
Heterocyclic compounds play a fundamental role in everyday life and are the most diffuse category of organic molecules that are known as useful intermediates, interesting scaffolds, relevant building blocks, and highly valuable fine chemicals extensively used in medicinal chemistry as well as in material science. Research on API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) is particularly involved and connected with the preparation of novel heterocyclic compounds that are suitable for different screening in innovative kinds of therapies for many diseases. Heterocycles are even diffused in the new materials that are continuously discovered with peculiar features and utilities as semiconductors, sensors, or any other role in the interdisciplinary field of material science. Many future devices that are going to be used soon are strongly linked and associated with heterocyclic compounds. Biochemistry is another field in which heterocycles show a ubiquitous role and there is probably no biochemical pathway without heterocyclic molecules. This Special Issue aims to show the multiplicity of actions that heterocycles play, representing an enormous class of products. I have the privilege and honor to serve as Guest Editor for this Special Issue of Molecules on “Heterocyclic Compounds: Design, Synthesis, and Applications”. I would thus like to invite all those who are involved in heterocyclic chemistry to participate and contribute to this issue.
Prof. Dr. Andrea Penoni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cyclization
- heterocycles
- bioactive compounds
- medicinal chemistry
- natural products
- annulations
- material science
- building blocks
- fine chemicals
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