Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures long considered impossible—the team is opening the door to entirely new kinds of chemistry.
I wouldn’t call it so disruptive. I mean, sure this is a great discovery in the field of organic chemistry and will allow producing new molecules.
But it’s not like this gets us into a paradigm shift or anything like that, this still builds within the framework of Quantum Mechanics and is not something that was previously believed theoretically impossible.
It is something quite amazing that they pulled it off and it will open up new possibilities in the drug discovery field.
I’ll be waiting for molecules with such moieties to show up in commercial provider catalogues in the following years.
I wouldn’t call it so disruptive. I mean, sure this is a great discovery in the field of organic chemistry and will allow producing new molecules. But it’s not like this gets us into a paradigm shift or anything like that, this still builds within the framework of Quantum Mechanics and is not something that was previously believed theoretically impossible. It is something quite amazing that they pulled it off and it will open up new possibilities in the drug discovery field.
I’ll be waiting for molecules with such moieties to show up in commercial provider catalogues in the following years.