1. PATENTLY RIGHT PROCESS CHEMISTRY.
- Author
-
Mccoy, Michael
- Subjects
- *
PHARMACEUTICAL biotechnology , *DRUG development , *PHARMACEUTICAL chemistry - Abstract
The article presents a case study of Cytokinetics Inc., which has worked with the pharmaceutical chemical manufacturer, Irix Pharmaceuticals Inc., to develop a synthetic small-molecule drugs to treat diseases. It states that Irix has used the medicinal chemistry process in manufacturing ispinesib, and create new approach of introducing ispinesib's chiral center with a D-amino acid. It mentions that Irix was awarded the patent for using amino acid to introduce chirality into an ispinesib.
- Published
- 2010