RESUMO
Combinatorial chemistry was introduced in the 1980s. It provided the possibility to produce new compounds in practically unlimited number. New strategies and technologies have also been developed that made it possible to screen very large number of compounds and to identify useful components in mixtures containing millions of different substances. This dramatically changed the drug discovery process and the way of thinking of synthetic chemists. In addition, combinatorial strategies became useful in areas such as pharmaceutical research, agrochemistry, catalyst design, and materials research. Prof. Árpád Furka is one of the pioneers of combinatorial chemistry.
Assuntos
Técnicas de Química Combinatória/história , Química Farmacêutica/história , Técnicas de Química Combinatória/métodos , Genômica/história , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , Humanos , Hungria , Bibliotecas de Moléculas Pequenas/históriaRESUMO
High-throughput chemistry (HTC) is approaching its 20-year anniversary. Since 1992, some 5,000 chemical libraries, prepared for the purpose of biological investigation and drug discovery, have been published in the scientific literature. This review highlights the key events in the history of HTC with emphasis on library design. A historical perspective on the design of screening, targeted, and optimization libraries and their application is presented. Design strategies pioneered in the 1990s remain viable in the twenty-first century.
