RSC Medicinal Chemistry Blog

Happy New Year to all our readers and welcome to our first issue of 2012!

On the cover of this issue is work by John Spencer et al. on the synthesis of a small library of ferrocene-based HDAC inhibitors via click chemistry – click JAHAs.  This article is from our forthcoming web collection on Epigenetics, take a look at some of the other interesting articles published in this series.

Click JAHAs: conformationally restricted ferrocene-based histone deacetylase inhibitors
John Spencer, Jahangir Amin, Ramesh Boddiboyena, Graham Packham, Breeze E. Cavell, Sharifah S. Syed Alwi, Ronald M. Paranal, Tom D. Heightman, Minghua Wang, Brian Marsden, Peter Coxhead, Matthew Guille, Graham J. Tizzard, Simon J. Coles and James E. Bradner.
DOI: 10.1039/C1MD00203A

Also in this issue are reviews on polyamine-based epigenetic modulators, Stat5 signalling inhibitors, protein structure-based pharmacophore modeling and hot papers on the inhibition of E. coli DXP synthase and a glucuronide prodrug of doxorubicin.

View the rest of the issue here