Scaffold diversity of the organic chemistry universe
‘Chemists’ historical exploration of chemical space has been highly uneven and unsystematic’ write Adam Nelson and coworkers. In this Perspective article they seek to pull together synthetic strategies that have been designed to allow a more systematic discovery of biologically active small molecules, with particular emphasis on combinatorial strategies.
Areas covered:
- The “build–couple–pair” approach
- Ambiphile pairing reactions
- Folding and branching pathways
- Oligomer-based approaches to scaffold diversity
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Towards the systematic exploration of chemical space
Mark Dow, Martin Fisher, Thomas James, Francesco Marchetti and Adam Nelson
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06098H
