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Current Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal chemistry is the scientific discipline at the interface of chemistry and pharmacology that concerns the design, synthesis, and development of compounds intended to prevent or treat disease. It involves identifying biological targets, designing molecules to interact with them, synthesizing new chemical enti…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 3 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 6× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2377-2549 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Medicinal chemistry is the scientific discipline at the interface of chemistry and pharmacology that concerns the design, synthesis, and development of compounds intended to prevent or treat disease. It involves identifying biological targets, designing molecules to interact with them, synthesizing new chemical entities, and optimizing their potency, selectivity, and pharmacological properties, drawing on organic synthesis, structural and computational chemistry, and structure-activity analysis. As a current and rapidly advancing field, medicinal chemistry encompasses the discovery of new therapeutic targets, the development of novel drug candidates, and the refinement of existing compounds. As a journal devoted to chemical advances, New Developments in Chemistry publishes research in synthetic and structural chemistry that supports such work, including the synthesis of N-glycosyl amides through hydrolysis of protected glycosyl oxazolines and Ritter-like reactions of carbohydrates, and computational analyses of molecular structure and vibrational properties of heterocyclic compounds using density functional theory. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to medicinal chemistry and the synthetic and structural chemistry that underpins the design and study of biologically active molecules.

Research published in this journal

3 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 3 articles above have been cited 6 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Current Medicinal Chemistry, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in New Developments in Chemistry (ISSN 2377-2549).

Journal editorial board
Annarita Del Gatto · Italy Bharat Gurale · United States Palani ELUMALAI · United Kingdom

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.