摘要
Combinatorial chemistry has produced libraries of millions of compounds in the last decade. Screening of those compounds, unfortunately, has not yet yielded as many new drug candidates as initially expected. Among a number of possible reasons, one is that many libraries combinatorial chemistry produced in the early periods are of the nature of linear, flat, and flexible molecules such as peptides and oligonucleotides, which do not have the desired properties to selectively interact with their targets to yield high quality hits and leads. In order to increase the number of quality hits and leads, rigid, structural featurerich and drug-like compound libraries are highly desirable. Design and development of structural features-rich and natural product-like combinatorial libraries, as well as high speed library production using modern solution and solid phase synthesis techniques such as IRORI's Directed Sorting technology, will be discussed.
