A Symmetry Breaking in Design and Production of Enantiomeric Drugs
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 2981
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Interests: asymmetric synthesis; synthesis of bidentant chiral ligands; fine organic synthesis; cross-metathesis reactions; CH activation; computer simulation of organic processes; some aspects of supramolecular chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Chirality, as a fundamental property of 3D objects (including many molecules and ions) to be non-superimposable on their mirror images, is imprinted on such basic building blocks of life as amino acids and sugars; it is further reflected by the chirality of more complex biochemical objects such as DNA, and finally, by the chirality of entire bodies. Each chiral compound exists as one of two possible isomeric molecules (or as a mixture of those two stereoisomers) that are related to one another as an object (e.g., right hand) and its mirror image (left hand). The biological properties of such optical isomers are often different: One of them could be a drug (e.g., (R)-(+)-thalidomide) but another a poison (e.g., (S)-(-)-thalidomide). Today, approximately 50% of marketed drugs are chiral. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy, published in 1992, regarding single optical isomers (enantiomers), although both mixture and single optical isomeric drugs will continue to be developed, a higher proportion of single optical isomers are being submitted for new drug approval. The fundamental research enhances the understanding of the fine stereochemical mechanism of chemical processes that should help to design more efficient, cheaper, and more environmentally beneficial industrial methods of enantiomeric drug production. In this issue, we primarily focus on modern practical methods of symmetry breaking, which are of interest to the pharmaceutical industry, while manuscripts dedicated to the analysis of current status of the industry and the market of chiral drugs will also be considered for publication.
Prof. Dr. Oleh M. Demchuk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Chiral drugs
- Enantiomeric drug
- Symmetry breaking
- Origin of asymmetric induction
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Sereoselective industrial methods
- Market of chiral drugs
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