Z514764
Aldrich
Combinatorial Strategies in Biology and Chemistry
| ISBN-10: | 0471497266 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-047149726-4 |
Description
| General description | Combinatorial chemistry has taken the pharmaceutical industry by storm over the past ten to fifteen years. There has been a massive investment in automation by pharmaceutical companies and a demand for graduates/PhDs with experience and knowledge of combinatorial chemistry. These days the academic education of chemists and biologists is gradually converging, so those entering the pharmaceutical industry need to be not only chemistry graduates but also biologists applying their biological knowledge to chemistry. Many chemists, however, still require experience in biological methods and similarly biologists have not yet realized the power of chemical methods. This book will therefore help ease the transition from biology into chemistry and vice versa, for those working in the combinatorial chemistry field. Because combinatorial chemistry evolved from the requirements of the biology field, the authors have written this book with both biologists and chemists in mind. Combinatorial chemistry is a new and highly influential area of modern synthetic chemistry based on efficient, parallel synthesis of molecules, as opposed to the use of several synthetic steps, to produce many sets of compounds for biological evaluation. The techniques used in this area are key to the discovery of new drug compounds in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Combinatorial Methods in Chemistry and Biology describes the origins, basics and techniques used both in combinatorial chemistry and molecular biology. |
Properties
| publication info | A. Beck-Sickinger and P. Weber, John WIley & Sons, 2002, 194 pp., hard cover |
Table Of Contents
| Table of Contents | Preface. List of Abbreviations. Introduction Peptide Libraries - How it all Began Nonpeptide Libraries Chemical Libraries Based on the Use of Mixtures Parallel Syntheses and Automation Combinatorial Methods With Molecular Biological Techniques The Analysis of Libraries and Arrays Glossary. Index. |
