We are now in the era of weight-loss drugs. Decisions on how these drugs will be used look likely to shape our future health and even what our society might look like. And, as researchers are ...

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The resulting molecule is a pyrrole, which is widely used in pharmaceuticals. The properties of a drug depend on the arrangement of its constituent atoms – change just one of these atoms ...

This research was published in the scientific journal Science on October 3rd under the title "Photocatalytic Furan-to-Pyrrole Conversion." Many drugs have complex chemical structures, but their ...

In pioneering drug development, the new technology that ... directly converting them into pyrrole frameworks, which are widely used in pharmaceuticals. < Image. Conceptual image illustrating ...

“We present a photocatalytic strategy that [directly converts a furan] into a pyrrole analog in a single ... nitrogen nucleophiles commonly used in drug discovery, and the late-stage ...