Aims & Scope
Medicinal Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal, aims to cover all the latest outstanding
developments in medicinal chemistry and rational drug design. The journal
publishes original research, full-length/mini-review articles, short
communications, letters,
and guest-edited thematic issues covering recent research and developments in
the field. Articles are published rapidly by taking full advantage of Internet
technology for both the submission and peer review of manuscripts.
Medicinal Chemistry covers all areas of medicinal
chemistry, including biological evaluation of novel biologically active
compounds, diagnostic agents, or labeled ligands employed as pharmacological
tools, structural biological studies using X-ray, NMR, etc., of relevant ligands and
biological targets, aiming at the investigation of molecular recognition
processes involved in the action of bioactive compounds. The journal also
covers chemical and analytical techniques used in rational drug design,
synthetic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry of small molecules and naturally
occurring compounds, structural characterization, drug-likeness, optimization
of structure and properties, the effect of molecular structure on the
distribution, pharmacokinetics, and metabolic transformation and toxicology of
bioactive compounds including design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel types
of prodrugs, quantitative structure-activity relationships, modelling studies,
docking studies, new and emerging drug targets, pharmacogenomics,
high-throughput screening, and combinatorial chemistry.
Medicinal Chemistry is an essential journal for all researchers involved in drug design and discovery.